This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... THE CITY BEGINS Canal Talk OR several years after the massacre it seemed X as though the Indians had spoken truly. The country was busy with the war against England--the "War of 1812," it is called. Chicago was forgotten. Ouilmette was still here. He had been safe from the Indians because he was ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... THE CITY BEGINS Canal Talk OR several years after the massacre it seemed X as though the Indians had spoken truly. The country was busy with the war against England--the "War of 1812," it is called. Chicago was forgotten. Ouilmette was still here. He had been safe from the Indians because he was French. Now he lived a lazy, half-Indian life. Another Frenchman, Beaubien, came down on a trading journey from his post at Milwaukee. He saw this fine country empty of traders and bought the old Lee cabin from the Widow Lee, and began dealing with the Indians for furs. The Potawatomies still camped along the little creek. The Kinzie house, the Burns house, Hardscrabble, and the Lee cabin were yet standing, but only a few charred logs showed where the fort and the agency house had been. It was like the old time before the Englishmen had come. Together the Indians and their friends, the Frenchmen, hunted, feasted, danced, and traded furs in a wilderness. But at last the war was over, and America was at peace. People in the East again remembered the western country. They sent an agent to Chicago to keep their promise of paying the Indians. Next came soldiers who built another fort. It was a little larger and a little better than the old one. A palisade of sharp stakes went around the houses and the parade grounds, just as in the old fort. Wide gates opened in the north and south walls. At one corner a stout blockhouse stood overtopping the palisade. Again American soldiers drilled on the parade ground, filled the mess-room with loud voices, fished in the river, hunted in the woods, and worked in the garden and orchard and fields behind the fort. Soon Mr. Kinzie came back to his old house and brought his family with him. His friends, the Indians, ...
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