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Seventy-two years' recollections of Wisconsin

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Augustin Grignon was the last in a long line of French fur-traders that stretched back to Charles de Langlade, the first European to live in Wisconsin. From 1805-1835 Grignon controlled the crucial portage at Grand Kaukalin on the Fox River, at present-day Kaukauna. He therefore knew every important person and was involved somehow in every important event that touched the Fox-Wisconsin waterway. Near the end of his life, Grignon recalled his own experiences and those of his forebears, from the French and Indian War and Pontiac's uprising to the invention of the railroad and the great waves of 19th-century European immigration. This document is consequently one of the most important sources on the early history of Wisconsin.
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Keywords

  1. Boats And Boating
  2. Cities And Towns
  3. Corn
  4. Flour Mills
  5. Fox
  6. Fruit
  7. Fur Trade
  8. Ho Chunk
  9. Huron
  10. Islands
  11. Lakes
  12. Livestock
  13. Maple Syrup Industry
  14. Menominee
  15. Native Americans
  16. New York Indians
  17. Ojibwe
  18. Ottawa
  19. Pioneers
  20. Potawatomi
  21. Rites And Ceremonies
  22. Rivers
  23. Sauk
  24. Sawmills
  25. Slaver
  26. Slavery
  27. Vegetables
  28. War
  29. Wild Rice

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