The French Regime in Wisconsin and the Northwest de Louise Phelps Kellogg

The French Regime in Wisconsin and the Northwest

Louise Phelps Kellogg

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 apr 2009

Every student of eighteenth century American history should have this book, which is a publication of the renowned State Historical Society of Wisconsin. More than simply a history of WI, it discusses every major figure and event that influenced the histo

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Juliette Kinzie was born September 11, 1806. Raised in Middletown, Connecticut, she began her formal education at a boarding school in the New Haven area. Unusual for her time, Juliette's schooling did not end there. Beginning with tutelage by her uncle, Alexander Wolcott, she worked her way toward acceptance into the prestigious Emma Willard's School in Troy, New York. In 1830, Juliette married John Harris Kinzie and moved west with him to fulfill his appointment as an Indian sub-agent at Fort Winnebago. If Juliette had expectations of her role in a frontier Indian Agency upon her arrival, the next three years would present both challenges and times of discovery. Following adventure, war, famine, and the rigors of frontier fort life, opportunity in Chicago called the Kinzies away. While her stay in territorial Wisconsin was brief, the impact was lasting. In Chicago, Juliette began writing and publishing works of fiction such as Walter Ogilby and Mark Logan the Bourgeois. She additionally wrote of early Chicago's Fort Dearborn days, in which her husband's family had played a considerable part. In 1856, her memories of the old Northwest resurfaced in the form of a memoir which was published under the title Wau-Bun: The "Early Days" in the Northwest. In this narrative, she relayed her experiences at Fort Winnebago's Indian Agency. Her anecdotes about the Natives, the military, frontier travels, and her in-laws' experiences in the wilderness are as significant to the scholar as they are vivid to the casual reader.