For the localities: Spencer Carr, _A Brief Sketch of La Crosse, Wisconsin_ (1854); Daniel S. Durrie, _A History of Madison, the Capital of Wisconsin ... with an Appendix of Notes on Dane County_ (1874); E. W. Keyes, _History of Dane County_, 3 vols. (1906); _The History of Racine and Kenosha Counties_ (1879); _The History of Rock County_ (1879); _The History of Waukesha County_ (1880); H. L. Skavlem, "Scandinavians in the Early Days of Rock County, Wisconsin", _Normands-Forbundet_ (1909).
Charles A. Church, _History of Rockford and Winnebago County, Illinois, From its first Settlement in 1834 to the Civil War_ (1900); _History of Henry County, Illinois_ (1877); _The Past and Present of La Salle County_ (1877); John M. Palmer, _The Bench and Bar of Illinois. Historical and Reminiscent_ (1899).
Eric Johnson (Janson) and C. F. Peterson, _Scans-karne i Illinois Historiska Anteckningar_ (1880), is an early work of limited scope but judiciously written.
E. W. Olson (Editor with A. Schön and M. J. Engberg), _History of the Swedes of Illinois_, 2 vols. (1908), has some valuable chapters in the first volume, especially ch. IV on the Bishop Hill Colony, and the chapters dealing with Swedish churches; volume two is devoted to the usual illustrated biographies.
Charles R. Tuttle, _An Illustrated History of the State of Iowa_ (1876); W. E. Alexander, _History of Winneshiek and Allamakee Counties, Iowa_ (1882); Charles H. Sparks, _History of Winneshiek County, with Biographical Sketches of its Eminent Men_ (1877); J. J. Louis, _Shelby County_; Charles H. Fletcher, _The Centennial History of Jefferson County_ (1876); _A Biographical Record of Boone County_ (1902); A. Jacobson, _The Pioneer Norwegians_ (1905).
G. T. Flom, "The Coming of the Norwegians to Iowa," _Iowa Jour. of Hist. and Politics_, III (1905); "The Early Swedish Immigration to Iowa," _Ibid._, III (1905), "The Danish Contingent in the Population of early Iowa," _Ibid._, IV (1906), and "The Growth of the Scandinavian Factor in the Population of Iowa," _Ibid._, IV (1906); B. L. Wick, "The Earliest Scandinavian Settlement in Iowa," _Iowa Historical Record_, XVI (1900); F. A. Danborn, "Swede Point, or Madrid, Iowa", _Year-Book of the Swedish Historical Society of America_, 1911-1913.