Yellowbird: A True Tale of the Early Settlement of Town Schleswig: Translated from the German in 1900 by Paul Dachsel

Who is Yellowbird? In the forests of frontier Wisconsin, the question swirls around a headstrong young Native American queen. From the moment she appears in the spring of 1859 not far from the banks of the Sheboygan River, we are left wondering. When she leads the remaining Native Americans in the area to save a newborn settlement of German immigrants from a flood, more eyebrows are raised. Who is this strangely confident, mysterious young woman? Originally written in German in the late 1800s by Henry Goeres, Yellowbird is the tale of the early settlement of what would later become Kiel, Wisconsin. Translated into English in 1900, the book emerges as a curious blend of fact and fiction. And it is even more than that: a Victorian romance, an international thriller (complete with bounty hunters and a shoot-out), a mystery, a case of mistaken identity, a tale of the Civil War, a local history, a series of biographical portraits, a source on Native American practices, and a look at those who fled the 1848 revolutions in Europe. The creation of a fertile mind, this is a one-of- a-kind story and an artifact of its time and place. Newly-edited and helpfully annotated to provide background on the subtle references that fill the book, this is the first new edition to be published in over 100 years, an homage to the “never-to- be-forgotten Yellowbird”.