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1 634 the story of chequamegon bay 397 the story of cheouamegon bay by the editor we commonly think of wisconsin as a young state in a certain sense she is there are men now living two or three of whom i meet almost daily who were blazing paths through the wisconsin wilderness only sixty years ago : men who cleared the forest and broke the prairies who founded frontier communities which have developed into cities who upon this far-away border sowed the seeds of industries which to-day support tens of thousands of their fellows who threw up their hats when the territory was erected and who sat in the convention which gave to the new state a constitution the wisconsin of to-day the wisconsin which we know is indeed young for the lively octogenarians who were in at the birth will not admit that they are now old but there was an earlier a less prosaic wisconsin — the french wisconsin and it had flourished in its own romantic fashion for full two centuries before the coming of the anglo-saxon who brusquely crowding the contented creole to the wall made of his arcadian home an american commonwealth in 1634 when the child born upon the " mayflower " had reached but her fourteenth year jean mcolet sent out by the enterprising champlain as far as wisconsin — a thou sand miles of canoe journey west from quebec — made trading contracts such as they were with a half score of squalid tribes huddled in widely-separated villages through out the broad wilderness lying between lakes superior and michigan it was a daring laborious expedition as notable in its day as livingstone's earliest exploits in
Object Description
Language | English |
Pagination | xi, 515 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
Page | Wisconsin Historical Collections, Volume XIII (1895) |
Publisher | State Historical Society of Wisconsin |
Format-Digital | XML |
Source Creation Date | 1895 |
Identifier-Digital | whcvXIII0000 |
Description | Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, vol. 13, includes the following articles: Events at Prairie du Chien previous to American occupation, by Alfred Edward Bulger; The Bulger papers; Last days of the British at Prairie du Chien, by Alfred Edward Bulger; Papers of James Duane Doty; The territorial census for 1836; Notes on early lead mines in the Fever (or Galena) River region; Significance of the lead and shot trade in early Wisconsin, by Orin Grant Libby; Chronicle of the Helena shot-tower, by Orin Grant Libby; The Belgians of northeast Wisconsin, by Xavier Martin; The story of Chequamegon Bay; Historic sites on Chequamegon Bay, by Chrysostom Verwyst; Arrival of American troops at Green Bay in 1816; Narrative of Spoon Decorah; Narrative of Walking Cloud; and Population of Brown County, June 1830. |
Article Title | Wisconsin Historical Collections, Volume XIII (1895) |
Volume | Vol. 13 |
Series | Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin ; v. 13 |
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Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
Publication Date-Electronic | 2006 |
Type | Text |
Description
Language | English |
Page | 397 |
Publisher | State Historical Society of Wisconsin |
Format-Digital | JP2 |
Source Creation Date | 1895 |
Identifier-Digital | whcvXIII0421 |
Description | "The Story of Chequamegon Bay" by Reuben Gold Thwaites, explores the period of Wisconsin history, beginning in 1634, when the French were in control. He describes how Jean Nicolet followed the waterways west from Quebec to Wisconsin, ushering in a long period of French exploration and trade. Pierre Esprit Radisson (1632-1710) and Medard Groseilliers (1618-1696) discover Chequamegon Bay, a place of great importance to the fur trade, and the article goes on to discuss the importance of the Indians in the area, particularly the Huron and Ojibwe, to the French trading monopoly. The transition of the area from French to British and finally American control is described as well as how these changes affected the fur trade and missionary work. (28 pages) |
Article Title | The story of Chequamegon Bay |
Author | Thwaites, Reuben Gold, 1853-1913 |
Page Type | article home |
Volume | Vol. 13 |
Series | Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin ; v. 13 |
Rights | We believe that online reproduction of this material is permitted because its copyright protection has lapsed or because sharing it here for non-profit educational purposes complies with the Fair Use provisions of the U.S. Copyright Law. Teachers and students are generally free to reproduce pages for nonprofit classroom use. For advice about other uses, or if you believe that you possess copyright to some of this material, please contact us at asklibrary@wisconsinhistory.org. |
Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
Publication Date-Electronic | 2006 |
State | Wisconsin |
County | Ashland County; Bayfield County; |
Community | La Pointe; Ashland |
Decade | 1630-1639; 1650-1659; 1660-1669; 1670-1679; 1680-1689; 1690-1699; 1700-1709; 1710-1719;1730-1739; 1750-1759; 1760-1769; 1790-1799; 1800-1809; 1810-1819; 1820-1829; 1830-1839; 1840-1849; 1850-1859; |
Personal Name | Nicolet, Jean, 1598-1642; Radisson, Pierre Esprit, ca. 1636-1710; Des Groseilliers, Médard Chouart, sieur, b. 1618; Allouez, Claude Jean, 1622-1689; Le Sueur, Pierre Charles, b. 1657; La Ronde, Louis Denis De 1675 - 1741; Cadotte, Michel, 1764 - 1837; Warren, Lyman Marquis, 1794-1847; Warren, Truman, d. 1825 |
Subject | French Americans; Wisconsin Indians; Pioneers; English; Fur trade; Ojibwe Indians; Dakota (Sioux) Indians; Ojibwe Indians; Missionaries; Fur trade; Saint Croix River, Wis. & Minn.; |
Full Text | 1 634 the story of chequamegon bay 397 the story of cheouamegon bay by the editor we commonly think of wisconsin as a young state in a certain sense she is there are men now living two or three of whom i meet almost daily who were blazing paths through the wisconsin wilderness only sixty years ago : men who cleared the forest and broke the prairies who founded frontier communities which have developed into cities who upon this far-away border sowed the seeds of industries which to-day support tens of thousands of their fellows who threw up their hats when the territory was erected and who sat in the convention which gave to the new state a constitution the wisconsin of to-day the wisconsin which we know is indeed young for the lively octogenarians who were in at the birth will not admit that they are now old but there was an earlier a less prosaic wisconsin — the french wisconsin and it had flourished in its own romantic fashion for full two centuries before the coming of the anglo-saxon who brusquely crowding the contented creole to the wall made of his arcadian home an american commonwealth in 1634 when the child born upon the " mayflower " had reached but her fourteenth year jean mcolet sent out by the enterprising champlain as far as wisconsin — a thou sand miles of canoe journey west from quebec — made trading contracts such as they were with a half score of squalid tribes huddled in widely-separated villages through out the broad wilderness lying between lakes superior and michigan it was a daring laborious expedition as notable in its day as livingstone's earliest exploits in |