Sawyer County is rich in history.  This page is devoted to those histories that have been written and shared with us.

• Boettcher Deer Farm of Hayward )UPDATED
• The Explorations of Pierre Espirit Radisson (Lac Courte Oreilles excerpts)
• Early Days on the Chippewa - A History of Southern Sawyer Co.
• Reserve Wisconsin in Historical Documents
• Pipe of Manitou
• Chetac Spirit Rock - Pipe of Manitou
• The 1796 Murder of a Coureur du Bois at Lake Chetac
• Hayward Indian Affairs Meeting, July 1929
• Red Man Worships in Red Man's Own Way in New Dream Church
• Indians Build Unique Church
• The History of the Village of Couderay
• The History of Couderay by Ester Borrie
• History of Couderay by C. M. Olson
• The Golob Family of Draper Township
• The Development of Exeland
• The Founding and Growth of Hayward
• Creation of the Lac Court Oreilles Indian Reservation
• Lemington - Here & Gone
• The History of Meadowbrook
• Meteor - Flourishes, Then Fades
• The Origin of Ojibwa
• Radisson Ushers in the Railroad
• A History of Stone Lake
• Winter Named to Honor Railroad Official
• A Forest Fire in Northern Wisconsin
• Edward Hines Farm Land Company 
• History of the McKeown Family in Hayward 1903-1917 
• Legend of the Baby in the Snowbank

Other histories that pertain to the Sawyer Co. area include:
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History of the Chippewa Valley, 1875 by Thomas E. Randall

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