Works Cited
[Editor: This “Works Cited” page comes with an unusual disclaimer. As Potter will show in her next article, a few of these sources–particularly those claiming Caffee stopped in at the Walker House–are likely not true! That’s one reason for putting this story in print. In contrast, those closer in time to the actual event are true.]
Akamatsu, Rhetta. Ghost to Coast Tours and Haunted Places. Lulu.com, 2009, Google Books, https://books.google.com/books?id=DN58AgAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false. Accessed 10 August 2020.
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Jacobson, Ryan. Ghostly Tales of Wisconsin. Adventure Publications, 2009. Google Books, https://books.google.com/books?id=WCwrDgAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=Walker+House+ghost+Mineral+Point&source=gbs_navlinks_s. Accessed 10 August 2020.
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Peterson, Gary. “Nameless ghost stalks Walker House.” The Capital Times [Madison, Wisconsin], 28 October 1982, p. 57.
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Additional Sources
Cook, KB. “William Caffee — c1812 KY > 1842 WI — Hanged.” Genealogy.com, 20 May 2003, https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/caffee/37/ Accessed 10 August 2020.
Hauck, Dennis. Haunted Places: The National Directory: Ghostly Abodes, Sacred Sites, UFO Landings, and Other Supernatural Locations. Penguin, 2002, Google Books, https://books.google.com/books?id=kAK1p91zJEwC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false. Accessed 10 August 2020.
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Roberts, Melinda. “Marker 250: Iowa County Courthouse.” Wisconsin Historical Markers, http://www.wisconsinhistoricalmarkers.com/2013/09/marker-250-iowa-county- courthouse.html. Accessed 10 August 2020.
Rodolf, Theodore. “Pioneering in the Wisconsin lead region.” Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, vol. 15, edited by Reuben Thwaites, Democrat Printing Company, 1900, p.p. 367-368. Wisconsin Historical Society, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/whc/id/7823. Accessed 10 August 2020.
“Trial,” (Part one of the trial of William Caffee), as transcribed on Ancestry.com., https://www.ancestry.com/boards/surnames.caffee/55?fbclid=IwAR1krUTXrigjq5WvUhJMteayTm8EKmQzWRP89YuHtmLEUd1b6BC6TKu0JFo, Accessed January 24, 2021.
“William Caffee.” The Wiskonsan Enquirer [Madison, Wisconsin], 29 September 1842, p. 2.