August 2022
August 11, 2022
In July 2022, we discussed the layered history of Myrick Park, but there was one glaring piece of this history that was absent from our examination: who Myrick Park is named after…Nathan Myrick himself. This month, History Club will explore topics including: Nathan Myrick’s role as a settler-colonialist, why some La Crosse residents in the…
August 19, 2022
In our first activity this month, we read about Nathan Myrick and his brother Andrew Jackson Myrick, who both had a pivotal role in the Dakota War of 1862. Nathan Myrick made his wealth as trading post operator, and he purposefully involved himself in the various removals of Indigenous communities like the Ho-Chunk and Dakota…
[La Crosse] History Club 