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CONTENTS.


CHAPTER I.
Departure from Detroit

CHAPTER II.
Michilimackinac -- American Fur Company -- Indian Trade -- Mission School - Point St. Ignace

CHAPTER III.
Arrival at Green Bay -- Mrs. Arnot -- Gen. Root -- Political Despatches -- A Summerset -- Shantie Town -- Mr. Rolette -- Indian Morning Song -- Mr. Cadle's Mission -- Party at Mrs. Doty's -- Miss Grignons -- Mrs. Baird's Party -- Hamilton A. -- Mrs. Beall

CHAPTER IV.
Arrangements for Travelling -- Fox River -- Judge Doty -- Judge Reaume -- M. Boilvin -- Canadian Voyageurs: Their Songs -- The Kakalia - Wish-tay-yun -- Rev. Eleazer Williams -- Passage through the Rapids -- Grande Chute - Christman

CHAPTER V.
Beautiful Encampment -- Winnebago Lake -- Miss Four-Legs -- Garlic Island -- Wild Rice

CHAPTER VI.
Breakfast at Betty More's -- Judge Law -- Fastidiousness; What came of it

CHAPTER VII.
Butte des Morts -- French Cognomens -- Serpentine Course of Fox River -- Lake Puck-a-way -- Lac de Boeuf -- Fort Winnebago

CHAPTER VIII.
Major and Mrs. Twiggs -- A. Davis. -- An Indian Funeral -- Conjugal Affliction -- Indian Chiefs; Talk English -- The Wild Cat -- The Dandy

CHAPTER IX.
Housekeeping; The First Dinner

CHAPTER X.
Indian Payment -- Pawnee Blanc --The Washington Woman -- Raising Funds

CHAPTER XI.
Louisa -- Garrison Life -- Dr. Newhall -- Affliction -- Domestic Accommodations - Ephraim -- New Year's Day -- Native Custom -- Day-kau-ray's Views of Education - Capt. Harney's Mince-Pie

CHAPTER XII.
Lizzie Twiggs -- Preparations for a Journey -- The Regimental Tailor

CHAPTER XIII.
Departure from Fort Winnebago -- Duck Creek -- Upset in a Canoe --Pillou -- Encamping in Winter -- Four Lakes -- Indian Encampment -- Blue Mound -- Morrison's -- A Tennessee Woman

CHAPTER XIV.
Rev. Mr. Kent -- Losing One's Way -- A Tent Blown Down -- Discovery of a Fence -- Hamilton's Diggings -- Frontier Housekeeping -- Wm. S. Hamilton -- A miner -- Hard Riding - Kellogg's Grove

CHAPTER XV.
Rock River -- Dixon's- -- John Ogle -- Missing the Trail -- Hours of Trouble -- Famine in the Camp -- Relief

CHAPTER XVI.
A Potawatamie Lodge -- A Tempest --.Piche's - Hawley's - The Dupage -- Mr. Dougherty -- The Desplaines -- Mrs. Lawton -- Wolf Point -- Chicago

CHAPTER XVII.
Fort Dearborn -- Chicago in 1831 -- First Settlement of Chicago -- John Kinzie, Sen. -- Fate of George Forsyth -- Trading Posts --Canadian Voyageurs -- M. St. Jean -- Louis la Liberte

CHAPTER XVIII.
Massacre at Chicago

CHAPTER XIX.
Massacre continued -- Mrs. Helm -- Ensign Ronan -- Capt. Wells -- Mrs. Holt -- Mrs. Heald -- The Sau-ga-nash -- Sergeant Griffith -- Mrs. Burns -- Black Partridge and Mrs. Lee -- Nau-non-gee and Sergeant Hays

CHAPTER XX.
Treatment of American Prisoners by the British -- Captivity of Mr. Kinzie -- Battle on Lake Erie -- Cruelty of Gen. Proctor's Troops -- Gen. Harrison -- Rebuilding of Fort Dearborn -- Red Bird -- A Humorous Incident -- Cession of the Territory around Chicago

CHAPTER XXI.
Severe Spring Weather -- Pistol-Firing -- Milk Punch -- A Sermon -- Preemption to "Kinzie's Addition" -- Liberal Sentiments

CHAPTER XXII.
The Captive

CHAPTER XXIII.
Capt. McKillip -- Second Sight -- Ball at Hickory Creek -- Arrival of the "Napoleon" -- Troubles of Embarkation

CHAPTER XXIV.
Departure for Fort Winnebago -- A Frightened Indian -- Encampment at Dunkley's Grove -- Horses Lost -- Getting Mired -- An Ague Cured by a Rattlesnake -- Crystal Lake -- Story of the Little Rail

CHAPTER XXV.
Return Journey Continued -- Solidiers' Encampment -- Big Foot Lake -- Village of Maunk-suck -- A Young Gallant -- Climbing Mountain-Passes - Turtle Creek -- Kosh-ko-nong -- Crossing a Marsh -- Twenty-Mile Prairie -- Hasting's Woods -- Duck Creek -- Brunet -- Home

CHAPTER XXVI.
The Agency -- The Blacksmith's House -- Building a Kitchen -- Four-Legs, the Dandy -- Indian Views of Civilization -- Efforts of H. Mazzuchelli -- Charlotte

CHAPTER XXVII.
The Cut Nose -- The Fawn -- Visit of White Crow -- Parting with Friends -- Christman -- Louisa again -- The Sunday School

CHAPTER XXVIII.
Plante -- Removal -- Domestic Inconveniences -- Indian Presents -- Grandmother Day kau-ray -- Indian Customs -- Indian Dances -- The Medicine Dance -- Indian Graves - Old Boilvin's Wake

CHAPTER XXIX.
Indian Tales -- Story of the Red Fox

CHAPTER XXX.
Story of Shee-shee-banze

CHAPTER XXXI.
Visit to Green Bay -- Disappointment -- Return -- Journey -- Knaggs' -- Blind Indian -- Mau-zhee-gaw-gaw Swamp - Bellefontaine

CHAPTER XXXII.
Commencement of Sauk War -- Winnebago Council -- Crely -- Follett -- Bravery -- The Little Elk -- An Alarm -- Man-Eater and his Party -- An Exciting Dance

CHAPTER XXXIII.
Fleeing from the Enemy -- Mata -- Old 5moker -- Meeting with Menomonees -- Raising the Wind -- Garlic Island -- Winnebago Rapids -- The Wau-be-nau-kees -- Thunder Storm -- Vitelle -- Guardapie -- Fort Howard

CHAPTER XXXIV.
Panic at Green Bay -- Tidings of Cholera -- Green Bay Files -- Doyle, the Murderer -- Death of Lieut. Footer -- A Hardened Criminal -- Good News from the Seat of War -- Departure for Home -- Shipwreck at the Grand Chute -- A Wet Encampment -- An Unexpected Arrival -- Re-inforcement of Volunteers -- La Crosse Americaine -- Arrival at Home

CHAPTER XXXV.
Conclusion of The War -- Treaty at Rock Island -- Cholera among the Troops - Wau-kaun-kaw -- Wild-Cat's Frolic at the Mee-kan -- Surrender of the Winnebago Prisoners

CHAPTER XXXVI.
Delay in the Annual Payment -- Scalp Dances -- Groundless Alarm -- Arrival of Gov. Porter -- Payment -- Escape of the Prisoners -- Neighbors Lost -- Reappearance -- Robineau -- Bellair

CHAPTER XXXVII.
Agathe -- "Kinzie's Addition" -- Tomah -- Indian Acuteness -- Indian Simplicity

CHAPTER XXXVIII.
Famine -- Day-kau-ray's Daughter -- Noble Resolution of a Chief -- Bread for the Hungry -- Rev. Mr. Kent -- An Escaped Prisoner -- The Cut-Nose Again -- Leave-taking with our Red Children -- Departure from Fort Winnebago

APPENDIX


Mrs. John H. Kenzie, Wau-Bun, the "Early Day" in the Northwest. Chicago : D. B. Cooke & Co., 1857. p. ix-xii.
From the Memorial Library Department of Special Collections, University of Wisconsin-Madison.