Wisconsin Historical Collections, Volume VII (1876)

              memoir of charles de langlade by joseph tasse esq ottawa canada translated from the french by mrs sarah faiuchild dean among the numerous memoirs published by the state historical society of wisconsin concerning the primitive epoch of the northwest is a very interesting narrative full of curious and stir ring episodes under the title of u seventy-two years recollections of wisconsin this account embraces nearly three-quarters of a century the narrator was engaged during many years in the fur trade which yielded him a reasonable competency afterwards he retired to butte des morts in the state of wisconsin where he died at a very advanced age it was to that place that mr lyman c draper author of many historical works went to find captain grignon then almost an octogenarian and gathered from his own lips these precious reminiscences which without him would probably have been lost to history this visit of mr draper was made in 1857 augustin grignon enjoyed at that time spite of the frosts of age a health still robust a rare fidelity of memory and to the simple habits of the olden time he joined polished and agreeable manners dividing his leisure between reading and the pleasures of fishing and hunting the memoir of grignon comprises a hundred printed pages and has the great merit of bringing to light men and facts before un known and often of considerable importance the persons whom he introduces upon the pages of history are almost all from among the canadians whom love of lucre or passion for adventures had attracted at an early day in great numbers to the unexplored