Sources used in the post “Road Lake and the University of Kentucky”

• Land patents are available at the BLM land office.
• Survey records are available from the Wisconsin Digital Collections.
• Walter McIndoe was a public figure.  Information about him is available from various sources including Wikipedia.
• Hugh McIndoe has a brief biography in the Commemorative Biographical Record of the Upper Wisconsin Counties of Waupaca, Portage, Wood, Marathon, Lincoln, Oneida, Vilas, Langlade and Shawano available in Wisconsin County Histories.
• Paul W. Gates was a prolific writer on the history of federal land dispensation policies and practices.  The book referred to in the text is The Wisconsin pine lands of Cornell University : a study in land policy and absentee ownership.  Also see “Frontier land business in Wisconsin” in the Wisconsin Magazine of History archives.
• Nazare Faufau deserves further investigation.  Lore has it that he was a pivotal individual at the time of the founding of Tomahawk — not as a founder, but as a resident who cashed in his holdings when the railroad came in.  His land purchases in Lincoln County and nearby total well over 500 acres.  He and his family were enumerated in the 1880 census for the township of Rock Falls (present day Tomahawk was then included).  One of his holdings was a 95 acre parcel that became the site of the railroad depot, which may also have been his homestead.
• For information about land title as a traded commodity, see Telegraphic Codes by Preston, Dean and Company (1883).
• Information on the Wausau-Ontonagon road is scattered throughout various primary sources, including the original plat images.  It will be a subject of one or more future posts in The Laurentian Shield.