History of Vernon County, Wisconsin: Together with Sketches of Its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens; History of Wisconsin ...Union, 1884 - 826 pages |
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... Michigan on the east , wide - spreading prairies on the south , and the Mississippi river on the west , there met and mingled two distinct In- dian families , Algonquins and Dakotas . Con- cerning the various tribes of these families ...
... Michigan on the east , wide - spreading prairies on the south , and the Mississippi river on the west , there met and mingled two distinct In- dian families , Algonquins and Dakotas . Con- cerning the various tribes of these families ...
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... Michigan , ascended Green Bay , and finally entered the mouth of Fox river . It was not until he and his swarthy Hurons had urged their frail canoes six days up that stream , that his western exploration was ended . He had , mean- while ...
... Michigan , ascended Green Bay , and finally entered the mouth of Fox river . It was not until he and his swarthy Hurons had urged their frail canoes six days up that stream , that his western exploration was ended . He had , mean- while ...
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... Michigan , and the Sacs and of Green bay . He was likewise visited by the Foxes , who lived upon the waters of Fox river Illinois , and at the extremity of Lake Superior he met representatives of the Sioux . These declared they dwelt on ...
... Michigan , and the Sacs and of Green bay . He was likewise visited by the Foxes , who lived upon the waters of Fox river Illinois , and at the extremity of Lake Superior he met representatives of the Sioux . These declared they dwelt on ...
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... Michigan , not being regarded as sufficiently def- inite , Nicholas Perrot , in 1689 , at the head of paddled their canoes up Green bay and Fox river to the portage . They then crossed to the Wisconsin , down which they floated , until ...
... Michigan , not being regarded as sufficiently def- inite , Nicholas Perrot , in 1689 , at the head of paddled their canoes up Green bay and Fox river to the portage . They then crossed to the Wisconsin , down which they floated , until ...
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... Michigan . Other explorations followed , but generally in the tracks of previous ones . Except at " the bay , " there was not so long as the French had dominion over the northwest , a single post occupied for any length of time by ...
... Michigan . Other explorations followed , but generally in the tracks of previous ones . Except at " the bay , " there was not so long as the French had dominion over the northwest , a single post occupied for any length of time by ...
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