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  • Committee on Printing and Publication.
  • CONTENTS AND ILLUSTRATIONS.
  • OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY—1888.
  • PREFACE.
  • JEAN NICOLET, INTERPRETER AND VOYAGEUR IN CANADA. 1618–1642.1
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY OF JEAN NICOLET. BY CONSUL WILLSHIRE BUTTERFIELD.
  • IMPORTANT WESTERN STATE PAPERS.
  • RADISSON AND GROSEILLIERS IN WISCONSIN.1
  • PAPERS FROM THE CANADIAN ARCHIVES 1778–1783.
  • THOMPSON MAXWELL'S NARRATIVE—1760–1763.1
  • NARRATIVE OF ANDREW J. VIEAU, SR.
  • ANTOINE LE CLAIR'S STATEMENT.
  • GEORGE P. DELAPLAINE'S STATEMENT.
  • PRAIRIE DU CHIEN, IN 1811.
  • CAPTURE OF FORT M'KAY, PRAIRIE DU CHIEN, IN 1814.
  • DICKSON AND GRIGNON PAPERS—1812&–1815.
  • LETTER-BOOK OF THOMAS FORSYTH—1814–1818.1
  • PRAIRIE DU CHIEN IN 1827.
  • AMERICAN FUR COMPANY INVOICES—1821–22.
  • SKETCH OF MORGAN L. MARTIN.
  • NARRATIVE OF MORGAN L. MARTIN.
  • EARLY DAYS IN JEFFERSON COUNTY.
  • ALEXANDER MITCHELL, THE FINANCIER.
  • THE BOUNDARIES OF WISCONSIN.
  • LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN WISCONSIN.1
  • INDEX.

    • Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Volume 11

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    06-27689 r892. General Collections, Library of Congress. Copyright status not determined; refer to accompanying matter.

    This volume is a collection of several different kinds of important historical documents published by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. It opens with a biographical article and bibliography of Jean Nicolet, the first European to reach the Wisconsin region (1634), and continues with a compilation of "Western State Papers" from periods of French, English, and American domination of the Upper Midwest during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Selections from the third and fourth voyages (1658-1659) of Radisson and Groseilliers follow and chronicle their adventures along the Fox-Wisconsin watercourse, in the Chequamegon Bay vicinity, and in the Chippewa River's headwaters. A group of papers from the Canadian Archives (1778-1783) illuminates the Wisconsin region's history during the Revolutionary War and encompasses copies of all the Haldimand Papers which mention operations in that area. The Haldimand Papers contain the correspondence of British officers with each other and with their commanding officer, General Frederick Haldimand, at Quebec. Thompson Maxwell's narrative describes what may have been the first voyage across Lake Superior under British command, and there are additional documents detailing life at the fur-trading post of Milwaukee. There are also descriptions of Prairie du Chien and Green Bay in the early nineteenth century. This volume provides much information on the fur trade and the Native Americans who participated in it. The material included also discusses European, Native American, and American relations as well as boundary issues, local government structures, Jefferson County's early days, and the financial career of Andrew Mitchell. An index appears at the end of the volume.

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