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the four lake country 347 thus engaged a ball from the gun of an indian who was con cealed quite near them and before unobserved took effect just above the eye the poor fellow thus paid a dear forfeit for his disregard of the advice given him by his more careful com panions during the years referred to other scenes were being enact ed and by other parties in the four lake region on the 15th and 16th of october 1832 capt low with privates james halpin and archibald crisman encamped on mo nona lake ridge at that time about five hundred indians were encamped between where the capitol now stands and the shore of lake monona these indians came here for the pur pose of traffic with a french trader who had his goods in a temporary indian-built hut near robinson's stone house the name of this trader was louis armel capt low and his command came down from the portage fort winnebago in pursuit of some deserters whom they readily found as they had imbibed too freely of the french trader's bad whiskey to be well qualified to secrete themselves one of them had taken so great liberty in his debauch that he was unable to be carried back immediately i was also led to infer that the amiable officer and his command were led to patronize the drinking de partment which was conducted by the french trader quite as much as corresponded well with their mission this expedi tion came from the fort by way of dekorra and hastings creek now known as enspringer's and then across the prairie and along the north-west side of lake monona through the old plat of the city of the four lakes and around the west end of the lake through the present university grounds a cabin was built at enspringer's place at a very early day this house which for some time served as a resort for persons coursing through the country was supposed to have been burned by a soldier named john h megan who had been flogged and drummed out of the garrison at fort winnebago to which punishment he was subjected for selling liquors clan
Object Description
| Language | English |
| Pagination | 508 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Page | Wisconsin Historical Collections, Volume IV (1859) |
| Publisher | State Historical Society of Wisconsin |
| Format-Digital | XML |
| Source Creation Date | 1859 |
| Identifier-Digital | whcvIV0000 |
| Description | The Report and collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, for the years 1857 and 1858 includes the following articles: Annual address, by John Y. Smith; Recollections of Wisconsin since 1820, by Ebenezer Child; Recollections of the early history of northern Wisconsin, by Henry S. Baird; Early history of Wisconsin, by Alfred Brunson; Commercial history of Milwaukee, by Edward D. Holton, Lemuel W. Weeks, and J.B.D. Cogswell; Sketch of the Brothertown Indians, by Thomas Commuck; Rev. Cutting Marsh on the Stockbridges; The last of the Mohicans, by Levi Konkapot, Jr.; Death of John W. Quinney; Celebration of the Fourth of July, 1854, at Reidsville, New York, by John W. Quinney; Memorial of John W. Quinney; Early times in Sheboygan County, by Horace Rublee; Early events in the Four Lake Region, by C.B. Chapman; North-eastern boundary of Wisconsin; On the public land surveys and the latitude and longitude of places in Wisconsin, by I.A. Lapham; On the man-shaped mounds of Wisconsin, by I.A. Lapham; Death of Tecumseh at the Battle of the Thames in 1813, by Alfred Brunson; Death of Tecumseh, by John T. Kingston; First grave in the city of Watertown, by D.W. Ballou, Jr.; Early settlement of La Crosse and Monroe counties, by Morrison McMillan; and On the latitude and longitude of Milwaukee, Prairie du Chien, Racine, and Madison in the state of Wisconsin, from astronomical observations, by J.D. Graham. |
| Article Title | Wisconsin Historical Collections, Volume IV (1859) |
| Volume | Vol. 04 |
| Series | Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin ; v. 4 |
| Rights | © Copyright 2006 by the Wisconsin Historical Society (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Publication Date-Electronic | 2006 |
Description
| Language | English |
| Page | 347 |
| Publisher | State Historical Society of Wisconsin |
| Format-Digital | JP2 |
| Source Creation Date | 1859 |
| Identifier-Digital | whcvIV0351 |
| Author | Chapman, Chandler Burnell, 1815-1877 |
| Page Type | article |
| Volume | Vol. 04 |
| Series | Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin ; v. 4 |
| Rights | © Copyright 2006 by the Wisconsin Historical Society (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Publication Date-Electronic | 2006 |
| Full Text | the four lake country 347 thus engaged a ball from the gun of an indian who was con cealed quite near them and before unobserved took effect just above the eye the poor fellow thus paid a dear forfeit for his disregard of the advice given him by his more careful com panions during the years referred to other scenes were being enact ed and by other parties in the four lake region on the 15th and 16th of october 1832 capt low with privates james halpin and archibald crisman encamped on mo nona lake ridge at that time about five hundred indians were encamped between where the capitol now stands and the shore of lake monona these indians came here for the pur pose of traffic with a french trader who had his goods in a temporary indian-built hut near robinson's stone house the name of this trader was louis armel capt low and his command came down from the portage fort winnebago in pursuit of some deserters whom they readily found as they had imbibed too freely of the french trader's bad whiskey to be well qualified to secrete themselves one of them had taken so great liberty in his debauch that he was unable to be carried back immediately i was also led to infer that the amiable officer and his command were led to patronize the drinking de partment which was conducted by the french trader quite as much as corresponded well with their mission this expedi tion came from the fort by way of dekorra and hastings creek now known as enspringer's and then across the prairie and along the north-west side of lake monona through the old plat of the city of the four lakes and around the west end of the lake through the present university grounds a cabin was built at enspringer's place at a very early day this house which for some time served as a resort for persons coursing through the country was supposed to have been burned by a soldier named john h megan who had been flogged and drummed out of the garrison at fort winnebago to which punishment he was subjected for selling liquors clan |