Since 1993 Hodag Press has been publishing GOOD REGIONAL READING focusing on the upper Midwest.
LONG LIVE THE HODAG! - Second Edition (2006)
A second edition of LONG LIVE THE HODAG! - The Life and Legacy of Eugene Simeon Shepard is currently available. Highlights of this expanded version include:
- Previously unpublished historic photographs of Rhinelander, the Shepard family and the Hodag
- Additional cartoons from Eugene Shepard's own hand
- Several of Shepard's hand-written photo captions
- Incorporation of material from a 1963 interview with Eugene Shepard's son Layton
- Incorporation of material from a 1960 MA thesis focusing on the Hodag! musical
- Incorporation of material from a 1920 BA thesis focusing on Rhinelander's history
- An annotated appendix including three of Shepard's lengthy letters printed in Rhinelander's weekly, the New North
Read the Preface to the Second Edition
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Hodag History
The Wisconsin Historical Society honored the Hodag's history with this marker erected in Rhinelander's Hodag Park in 1973