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eeminisoenobs of wisconsin 269 no 10 it was in 1839 while in the monomonee pineries that desirous of returning to prairie du chien i looked around for the means of doing so i pitched upon a plan that few would think of in this age of progress when a very few hours suffice to perform the journey that then occupied as many days but there were no conveniences of travel on the upper mississippi then ; a passage in a high-pressure steamboat such as was the science could not be counted on with any certainty i got a large mackinaw boat rigged an awning and placed my family and what few worldly goods i possessed in it and made the trip from the mills on monomonee eiver to the prairie we had a pleasant trip sailing and floating down the river ; and were i to give a minute sketch of it you might think it interesting but as i am anxious to give an account of things in general rather than a personal history i will merely notice one incident of our journey which occurred before our safe arrival at prairie du chien our boat was thirty feet in length and the awning extended over a space of fifteen feet in the centre beneath which was placed our goods provisions and bedding at the same time affording shelter for my wife and children from the rain and night damps in the stern i had reserved a space to work the steering oar while in the bow was a stove where my wife cooked our food and such game as i shot with all the exposure of that trip i look back at the time thus spent as among the pleasantest of my life one day while the boat was floating lazily down with the current opposite trempealeau mountain my attention was called to an animal pointed out by my wife it was on a long narrow bar or point of an island just below us and appeared to be playing with some object unconscious of our approach i was not long in discovering that it was a large panther and made up my mind to shoot it for at that time i had never killed one so telling my wife to take the oar and direct the
Object Description
| Language | English |
| Pagination | viii, 438 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Page | Wisconsin Historical Collections, Volume V (1868) |
| Publisher | State Historical Society of Wisconsin |
| Format-Digital | XML |
| Source Creation Date | 1868 |
| Identifier-Digital | whcvV0000 |
| Description | Report and collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, for the years 1867, 1868 and 1869, vol. 5, includes the following articles: Eulogies for John Warren Hunt and Louis Powell Harvey; Canadian documents; Early days at Prairie du Chien and the Winnebago Outbreak of 1827, by William J. Snelling; Indian honor, an incident of the Winnebago War; the Winnebago Outbreak, by Lewis Cass; Letter to Gen. Henry Atkinson, by Henry Dodge; A western reminiscence, by Abram Edwards; Eulogy on Henry Dodge; The Winnebago War, by Thomas L. McKenney; Reminiscences of Wisconsin, by John H. Fonda; Dodge's volunteers in the Black Hawk War; Reminiscences of the Black Hawk War, by Emilie; Battle of the Bad Ax, by Henry Smith; Capture of Black Hawk, by David McBride; Dells of Wisconsin, Black Hawk's Cave; Black Hawk's autobiography vindicated, by J.B. Patterson; Death of Black Hawk, by Willard Barrows; Winnebagoes and the Black Hawk War; Sioux and the Black Hawk War; Personal narratives of Black Hawk War, by Joseph Dixon and W. Davidson; Early history of education in Wisconsin, by W.C. Whitford; History of school supervision in Wisconsin, by W.C. Whitford; Life and services of J.D. Doty, by Albert G. Ellis; Reminiscences of Hole-in-the-Day; Death of Hole-in-the-Day; Murder of Hole-in-the-Day; Additional notes on the younger Hole-in-the-Day; Gen Cass at St. Marie, 1820. |
| Article Title | Wisconsin Historical Collections, Volume V (1868) |
| Volume | Vol. 05 |
| Series | Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin ; v. 5 |
| Rights | © Copyright 2006 by the Wisconsin Historical Society (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Publication Date-Electronic | 2006 |
Description
| Language | English |
| Page | 269 |
| Publisher | State Historical Society of Wisconsin |
| Format-Digital | JP2 |
| Source Creation Date | 1868 |
| Identifier-Digital | whcvV0283 |
| Author | Fonda, John H., ca. 1797-ca. 1868 |
| Page Type | article |
| Volume | Vol. 05 |
| Series | Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin ; v. 5 |
| Rights | © Copyright 2006 by the Wisconsin Historical Society (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Publication Date-Electronic | 2006 |
| Full Text | eeminisoenobs of wisconsin 269 no 10 it was in 1839 while in the monomonee pineries that desirous of returning to prairie du chien i looked around for the means of doing so i pitched upon a plan that few would think of in this age of progress when a very few hours suffice to perform the journey that then occupied as many days but there were no conveniences of travel on the upper mississippi then ; a passage in a high-pressure steamboat such as was the science could not be counted on with any certainty i got a large mackinaw boat rigged an awning and placed my family and what few worldly goods i possessed in it and made the trip from the mills on monomonee eiver to the prairie we had a pleasant trip sailing and floating down the river ; and were i to give a minute sketch of it you might think it interesting but as i am anxious to give an account of things in general rather than a personal history i will merely notice one incident of our journey which occurred before our safe arrival at prairie du chien our boat was thirty feet in length and the awning extended over a space of fifteen feet in the centre beneath which was placed our goods provisions and bedding at the same time affording shelter for my wife and children from the rain and night damps in the stern i had reserved a space to work the steering oar while in the bow was a stove where my wife cooked our food and such game as i shot with all the exposure of that trip i look back at the time thus spent as among the pleasantest of my life one day while the boat was floating lazily down with the current opposite trempealeau mountain my attention was called to an animal pointed out by my wife it was on a long narrow bar or point of an island just below us and appeared to be playing with some object unconscious of our approach i was not long in discovering that it was a large panther and made up my mind to shoot it for at that time i had never killed one so telling my wife to take the oar and direct the |