Author: A. C. Wheeler

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-27

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9781332006601

Excerpt from The Chronicles of Milwaukee: Being a Narrative History of the Town From Its Earliest Period to the Present In which the intelligent reader makes progression by going backward nearly a century, and discovers the original owners in fee of Miliokie; together with other interesting but unimportant matter; Some Accounts of the Early Traders at Mahn-a-wau-kie, and their Difficulties - Telling how Peshano, the Poet, came to Lose his Scalp, and how a Trans-River War came of it, and what became of Mash-e-took; Visitors from Green Bay - Jacques Vieau - First Trading Post - Solomon Juneau, in a Hunting Shirt, Views the Location of the Future City - Feels no Ambitious Inspiration - Commences his Labors - Where that First Cabin was Located; Domestic Troubles in the Family of Pe-sha-no, and how an Innocent Doctor suffered thereby - Progress of the Dawn; Bursting of the Seed - What Green Bay thought of the Plant - Some Affectionate and Antique Nonsense in regard to the Village - The First Citizens - The Death of O-nau-ge-sa; Interesting Letters Written from Milwaukee in 1836 - The Slidell Family and their Troubles - The Murder of Ellsworth Burnett About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.