Books & Resources

Our Rock River by Nels Akerlund and Ted Landphair, Chelsea Publishing, Inc., Washington, DC, 1995.     ISBN: 0-9620877-4-2  Purchase at Amazon

The Rock River Runs Through Us: Waupun, Mayville, Horicon and Hustisford, Wisconsin Humanities Council, US Fish and Wildlife Service and Horicon Area Foundation, 2008.

Black Hawk: an Autobiography, Black, Hawk, and Donald Jackson. Black Hawk: an Autobiography. Urbana: University of Illinois, 1964. Print.


Winnebago County Connected – Campbell, B.D. Winnebago County Connected. Encino: Cherbo Group, 2009. Print. Purchase at Amazon


Animal Factory: the Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy, and Poultry Farms to Humans and the Environment – Kirby, David. New York: St. Martin’s, 2010. Print. Purchase at Amazon


Art Thieme Songs of the Heartland My Rock River Valley“Rock River Valley” song by Art Thieme, 1979 – Art Thieme is an Illinois native who wrote this folk song about the Rock River and included it in his album Songs Of The Heartland, 1980.  Click here for PDF about the song.