Why doesn't Wisconsin have control over the upper part of Michigan (UP) instead of Michigan?

The land above Wisconsin is controlled by Michigan. Why isn't it a part of Wisconsin.
That's like asking why Maine is owned by the US instead of Canada or why TX is as large as it is. That's just the way the founding fathers and settlers of those two states had it. Wisconsin wouldn't do much more with the UP than Michigan is currently, so why does it matter?
Don't tell anyone but we are massing troops on the border. Any day now we will launch a full scale invasion into the UP and take it for its rightful owner - the land of Cheese. Oo Rah.
Because the land above Michigan belongs to Michigan. If the Upper Peninsular does anything it will become their own state (Superior). they've talked about this for years.
This is like asking why Florida's peninsula belongs to Florida and not Alabama.
Da UP will never be a part of da cheeseheads! There's 40 deer for every 2 people up there anyway.


Answers:
At one time or another a lot of that land has changed hands especially before the creation of the old Northwest Territory, which covered most of what is called the great lakes region. It consisted of a group of territories that changed boundaries as those areas became states and unclaimed lands were reassigned to another territory. Apparently when Michigan became a state, it wanted to claim a strip of land that is now part of northern Ohio. As part of the agreement to give up that claim, Michigan was given most of the western section upper peninsula, reassigning it from
the Wisconsin Territory.

Wikipedia has some interesting maps that show some of the changes on their Michigan Territory entry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/michigan_te...

But we're working on getting it back! First we convert all da Yoopers to Packer fans by infusing their cheese with old flat Blatz beer...
The upper part of Michigan is part of Michigan, always has. Wisconsin doesn't lay any claim to it, and no its not part of Wisconsin.