Dark La Crosse Stories

On the 17th episode of Dark La Crosse Stories, the archives team at the La Crosse Public Library explores the recent disappearance of a local teenager in a tale that haunts the city to this day.

On the eighth episode of Dark La Crosse Stories, the archives team at the La Crosse Public Library takes a look at a #metoo worthy story involving a "doctor" and an aspiring actress in the early 20th century. The Dark…

On the tenth episode of Dark La Crosse Stories, the archives team at the La Crosse Public Library digs deep into a tale of a medical anomaly, desperation and finally, relief. The Dark La Crosse Stories series is made possible…

On the 15th episode of Dark La Crosse Stories, the archives team at the La Crosse Public Library uncovers a sordid tale of two pioneers, the end to their shared dream of finding riches in the mid-18th Century frontier and…

On the 14th episode of Dark La Crosse Stories, the archives team at the La Crosse Public Library dives deep into the history of the Black and Mississippi Rivers, the logging industry and a deadly conflict that arose between two…

On the ninth episode of Dark La Crosse Stories, the archives team at the La Crosse Public Library chases down a tale connecting the city of La Crosse to infamous mobster, John Dillinger. The Dark La Crosse Stories series is…

On the 13th episode of Dark La Crosse Stories, the archives team at the La Crosse Public Library explores a tenuous link between the city's current mayor, Tim Kabat, and a counterfeiter who lived on the south side over a…

On the 11th episode of Dark La Crosse Stories, the archives team at the La Crosse Public Library tells the stories of Frankie La Salle, a veteran of the world’s oldest profession during its golden age in downtown La Crosse.

On the 18th episode of Dark La Crosse Stories, the archives team at the La Crosse Public Library breaks the tension with a few short vignettes into mysterious but funny events of the past.

La Crosse newspaper man Marcus ‘Brick’ Pomeroy took a controversial position during the Civil War.

The sharp-shooting physician and politician, who called himself White Beaver, made his fortune selling cough syrup and his fame through dime-store novels full of outlandish tales of his frontier exploits with friend William "Buffalo Bill" Cody.

On the 19th episode of Dark La Crosse Stories, the archives team at the La Crosse Public Library tells the stories of the deadly storm that hit the upper Midwest on Nov. 11, 1940. The Dark La Crosse Stories series…

The 1947 story of a prominent La Crosse physician who was shot four times along Hwy. 16 while making house calls.

On the 12th episode of Dark La Crosse Stories, the archives team at the La Crosse Public Library becomes embedded in the past with a story about service, struggle and murder.

This is the first in a two-part story that describes how a political celebration turned ugly in 1884. The second part will be released March 17.