How to use the guide/ legend.

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=47 style=" border-bottom: 3px solid #FF9900;" BGCOLOR="#FFFF33" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B>How to use the guide/ legend.</B></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=162 style="border-right: 3px solid #FF9900;" BGCOLOR="#FFFF33" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Yellowstone Trail"><B><IMG SRC="30164140.png" border=0 width="100" height="20" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="wisguide0.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Wis Guide Home"><B>Wis Guide Home</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="guidewis00.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="How to use the guide/ legend."><B>How to and legend</B></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>By county:</B></div> <div> <A HREF="guidewis12.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="12 St Croix County "><B>12 St Croix</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="guidewis11.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="11 Dunn Eau Claire Counties"><B>11 Dunn & Eau Claire</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="guidewis10.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="10 Chippewa County"><B>10 Chippewa</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="guidewis09.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="09 Clark Marathon Counties"><B>09 Clark & Marathon</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="guidewis08.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="08 Wood County"><B>08 Wood</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="guidewis07.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="07 Portage County"><B>07 Portage</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="guidewis06.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="06 Waupaca County"><B>06 Waupaca </B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="guidewis05.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="05 Winnebago Outagamie Counties"><B>05-Winnebago & Outagamie</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="guidewis04.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="04 Fond du Lac DodgeCounties"><B>04-Fond du Lac & Dodge</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="guidewis03.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="03 Washington Waukesha Counties"><B>03 Washington/</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="guidewis03.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="03 Washington Waukesha Counties"><B>Waukesha</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="guidewis02.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="02MilwaukeeCounty"><B>02-Milwaukee</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="guidewis01.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="01 Kenosha Racine Counties"><B>01 Kenosha & Racine</B></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=433 width="100%" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="06100c00egerdp.jpg"> <div> [For this draft, each map has a separate legend and it does not appear here.]</div> <bR> <bR> <div> This is a different kind of guide. This guide is specifically designed to follow only one road, the Yellowstone Trail (YT) through Wisconsin. The point of this guide is to celebrate the Yellowstone Trail itself as the destination. In many places it is only a county road, in a few places it still is gravel. It should remind the traveler of the days when roads had names, not numbers. The traveler is guided to historic sites on or near the Trail or to historical museums, to present a picture of a bygone era. The traveler is urged to actually see and experience and enjoy the less known.</div> <bR> <div> We recommend that you obtain the county or regional guides available at any tourist information bureau for regular tourist information. </div> <bR> <div> Also, a detailed map of Wisconsin or, even better, detailed county maps are <B>strongly</B> recommended to be used with this guide.  Plot out your path before you drive.  The maps in this guide attempt to give you what is necessary to follow the YT, but they have few cross roads and physical features desirable for reference. Use the mileage markers to set locations; they are designed to be accurate within a tenth of a mile. The State has county maps available.  Great detail except in cities. <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.dot.wisconsin.gov/travel/maps/county.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.dot.wisconsin.gov/travel/maps"><U>www.dot.wisconsin.gov/travel/maps/county.htm</U></A></FONT> </div> <bR> <div> This road guide to the Yellowstone Trail in Wisconsin is loosely styled in the manner of the road guides in popular use from around 1902 to 1928.  The most popular of those guides were the Automobile Blue Books used in lieu of road maps, which were non-existent or rare – or inaccurate.  Each year, 4 to 12 Blue Books, each with over a 1000 pages were published each covering a different section of the country, a truly monumental publishing feat. Think of the miles driven to create and update those books!  Originals are fairly easily obtained today on eBay.</div> <bR> <div> The mileages used as mile posts in the text and on the maps represent driving distances from downtown Hudson along practical roads on or nearest the original (1915) route of the Yellowstone Trail. For instance, M213.6 marks the point 213.6 miles from Hudson, the western gateway to the YT. While they provide accurate distances, the traveler will often find their driving distances will vary significantly because of side trips, turning the wrong place, sight-seeing, and rounding error. No effort was made to make these mileages match the original miles as measured in 1915 by the original Yellowstone Trail Association nor the Blue Book mileages.</div> <div> Mileages next to city names are mileages at a central point within the city, so some mileages for places within the city appear before and some after the city name.</div> <bR> <div> Things to see or visit that are directly on the original route of the YT are generally listed within the “mile post” section of each county.  Other things that might be of interest but which are not directly on the YT are given in the “Wayside” sections of each county.  Historic notes, usually related to the development of the YT, are located individually within the county section.</div> <bR> <div> Because the user may be following the guide from either direction, references to left and right have been avoided.  The included maps reflect the best possible research to date.  The scale of the maps makes details hard to record and hard to read.  It would be best if the user possessed good detailed current maps to follow.  GPS is even better.  The authors use DeLorme’s relatively inexpensive Street Atlas, Topo 7, and a GPS receiver running on their laptop computer.</div> <bR> <div> The Italicized material which appears throughout reflect descriptions given by travel guides and are included to show the kind of travel aids drivers received almost 100 years ago. The common sources are: BB = a Blue Book of the year indicated; MH=Mohawk Hobbs Grade and Surface Guide: Yellowstone Trail, 1928; AAA=AAA Official Camping and Campsite Manual, 1922.   </div> <bR> <div> The following conventions are used to refer to highways in the text: Federal = US 12; State = Wis 12, County = Co B (in Wisconsin, county roads are named with 1-3 letters, sometimes using initials of honored citizens.)</div> <bR> <div> Identifying the route of the YT on modern maps was a major undertaking. The contributions of Michael Koerner of Appleton to the effort are acknowledged with deep gratitude. He spent countless hours working with Automobile Blue Books translating descriptive text to accurate maps and whenever our work differed from his, he was almost always proven to be correct. Also note that corrections, additions, and improvements to the maps and the text are sincerely solicited from the reader.  The authors are grateful for any such shared information.</div> </td> </tr></table></body>