Wisconsin the Wild Side is a story of the State of Wisconsin, ideally located between Lake Superior and Mississippi River, the region attracted a pageantry of rugged characters, each one with a dream yet only those who came first and one who came last discovered the greatest of all the treasures.

Being the record of the descendants of Symond Fiske, lord of the manor of Stadhaugh, Suffolk County, England, from the time of Henry IV to date, including all the American members of the family

Thomas Sawyer was born in 1799 near New Castle, Ky. and died in 1879 in California. Alexander Hay was born about 1734 in Scotland and died about 1776 in New York. James Hicks was born about 1750 and died in 1819 in Virginia. Edward King was born about 1773 and died in 1850 in Kentucky.

The culmination of more than thirty years of research, Olympians of the Sawdust Circle is an attempt to identify every major and minor player in the American circus world of the nineteenth century. This A-Z guide lists: surname, given name, dates of birth and death (if known), type of entertainment (and function) with which the individual was associated, and the companies and dates by whom the person was employed. Every researcher and library interested in American circus history will need this seminal guide. An absolutely astonishing piece of scholarship.