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grignon's recollections 259 campbell got into some difficulty with one crawford at mackinaw which eventuated in a duel near that place in which campbell fell it has been stated that from the death of father allouez at the close of the seventeenth century until 1820 the small colony was without a visit from any of the french mission aries i think this is not strictly correct and will adduce a little narrative in illustration in my boyhood days there was an aged chippewa woman named 0-cha-own residing at the little kau-kau-lin where she had a wigwam and a gar den-patch she was tall and sinewy and quite masculine in her appearance her husband had died early and she had no children she lived all alone save having half a dozen dogs of one kind each of which she had taught to eat his food only in his own particular dish she was a great huntress and spent each winter with her dogs in the woods the same as any indian hunter and was quite as successful in killing bear raccoon and other game beside a gun which i pre sume she used she had a lance with which with the aid of her dogs she would fearlessly attack bears and make them her victims she would have made a fit companion for nim rod of old she was withal a great miser ; for she would sell her furs and skins and invest the proceeds in clothing and other articles which she would never wear or use ; if there had been a gold and silver currency in the back woods in those days which there was not she doubtless would have hoarded her wealth in the precious metals instead of goods and fine clothing she usually wore in cold weather an old eoat which she had used so long almost from time imme morial that it had been patched and re-patched all over with bits of cloth of every hue and quality till it was fully two inches in thickness she wore an old chapeau on her head * in the 2nd vol of collections of this society some mention is made oi campbell pike in his travels does not mention campbell when he first visited prairie du chien in september 1805 ; but speaks of him on his return down the upper mississippi in april 1806 as a prominent citizen and a jus tice of the peace l c d
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| Language | English |
| Pagination | iv, 547 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Page | Wisconsin Historical Collections, Volume III (1857) |
| Publisher | State Historical Society of Wisconsin |
| Format-Digital | XML |
| Source Creation Date | 1857 |
| Identifier-Digital | whcvIII0000 |
| Description | The third annual report and collections of the State Historical Society, of Wisconsin, for the year 1856 includes the following articles: Eulogies on J.G. Percival; Notices of William A. White; Early Jesuit missionaries in the north-west, by Judge Law; Indian tribes of Wisconsin, by John Gilmary Shea; The Cass manuscripts, translated by Charles Whittlesey; Antiquities of Crawford County, by Alfred Brumson; Antiquities of Wisconsin, by Wm. Barry; Seventy-two years recollections of Wisconsin, by Augustin Grignon; Reminiscences of the north-west, by B.F.H. Witherell; The Chippewas of Lake Superior, by Richard E. Morse; Early history of Kenosha, by M. Frank; First settlement of Kenosha, by Wallace Mygatt; Early history of Green County, by J.W. Stewart; Sketch of Whitewater, by J.A. Leonard; The upper Wisconsin country, by A.G. Ellis; Sketch of Prescott and Pierce County, by Oliver Gibbs, Jr., and C.E. Young; Hudson and its tributary region, by T. Dwight Hall; New London and surrounding country, by A.J. Lawson; Resources of north-eastern Wisconsin, by E.B. Quiner; Wisconsin and its internal navigation; Lemonwier River, by D. McBride; Baraboo Valley, a dairy region; Lieut. Gov. Cruzat's message to the Sauks and Foxes; Public libraries in Wisconsin. |
| Article Title | Wisconsin Historical Collections, Volume III (1857) |
| Volume | Vol. 03 |
| Series | Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin ; v. 3 |
| Rights | © Copyright 2006 by the Wisconsin Historical Society (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Publication Date-Electronic | 2006 |
Description
| Language | English |
| Page | 259 |
| Publisher | State Historical Society of Wisconsin |
| Format-Digital | JP2 |
| Source Creation Date | 1857 |
| Identifier-Digital | whcvIII0273 |
| Author | Grignon, Augustin, b. 1780 |
| Page Type | Article |
| Volume | Vol. 03 |
| Series | Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin ; v. 3 |
| Rights | © Copyright 2006 by the Wisconsin Historical Society (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Publication Date-Electronic | 2006 |
| Full Text | grignon's recollections 259 campbell got into some difficulty with one crawford at mackinaw which eventuated in a duel near that place in which campbell fell it has been stated that from the death of father allouez at the close of the seventeenth century until 1820 the small colony was without a visit from any of the french mission aries i think this is not strictly correct and will adduce a little narrative in illustration in my boyhood days there was an aged chippewa woman named 0-cha-own residing at the little kau-kau-lin where she had a wigwam and a gar den-patch she was tall and sinewy and quite masculine in her appearance her husband had died early and she had no children she lived all alone save having half a dozen dogs of one kind each of which she had taught to eat his food only in his own particular dish she was a great huntress and spent each winter with her dogs in the woods the same as any indian hunter and was quite as successful in killing bear raccoon and other game beside a gun which i pre sume she used she had a lance with which with the aid of her dogs she would fearlessly attack bears and make them her victims she would have made a fit companion for nim rod of old she was withal a great miser ; for she would sell her furs and skins and invest the proceeds in clothing and other articles which she would never wear or use ; if there had been a gold and silver currency in the back woods in those days which there was not she doubtless would have hoarded her wealth in the precious metals instead of goods and fine clothing she usually wore in cold weather an old eoat which she had used so long almost from time imme morial that it had been patched and re-patched all over with bits of cloth of every hue and quality till it was fully two inches in thickness she wore an old chapeau on her head * in the 2nd vol of collections of this society some mention is made oi campbell pike in his travels does not mention campbell when he first visited prairie du chien in september 1805 ; but speaks of him on his return down the upper mississippi in april 1806 as a prominent citizen and a jus tice of the peace l c d |