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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 96 10 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition. 32 0 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America, together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published: description of towns and cities. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 11 1 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 8 0 Browse Search
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1 6 0 Browse Search
Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States. 4 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 2 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 0 Browse Search
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1 2 0 Browse Search
Philip Henry Sheridan, Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army . 2 0 Browse Search
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1639. p. 23, 24. Huron, in Michigan, and at Green Bay; thus to gain access to the immense regionsof Algonquins from the west, especially from Green Bay. In the autumn of 1640, Charles Raymbault. dant there, the traders pressed forward to Green Bay. Two of them dared to pass the winter of 165ll to Rene Mesnard. He was charged to visit Green Bay and Lake Superior, land, on a convenient inl France in the vast regions that extend from Green Bay to the head of Lake Superior,—mingling happie messenger neglect the south: obtaining, at Green Bay, an escort of Potawatomies, he, the first ofefore the end of September, all were safe in Green Bay. Joliet returned to Quebec to announce thuse at Mackinaw, he cast anchor Aug. 27. in Green Bay. Here having despatched his brig to Niagarasin and Fox Rivers, to the French mission at Green Bay. 1680 In Illinois, Tonti was less fortunaanother year, which was occupied in visiting Green Bay, and conducting traffic there; in finding To[1 more...]
tomies had crowded the Miamis from their dwellings at Chicago: the intruders came from the islands near the entrance of Green Bay, and were a branch Schoolcraft, 1825, p. 360 of the great nation of the Chippewas. That nation, or, as some write, th of whose dialect, mythology, traditions, and customs, we have the fullest accounts,—held the country from the mouth of Green Bay to the head waters of Lake Superior, and were early visited by the French at Sault St. Mary and Chegoimegon. They adopardly implies a band of Indians distinct from the Chippewas; but history recognizes, as a separate Algonquin tribe near Green Bay, the Menomonies, who were found there in 1669, who retained their ancient territory long after the period of French anddialect. South-west of the Menomonies, the restless Sacs and Foxes, ever dreaded by the French, held the passes from Green Bay and Fox River to the Mississippi, and, with insatiate avidity, roamed, in pursuit of contest, over the whole country be
er the commerce of the remote interior: if furs descended by the Ottawa, they went directly to Montreal; and if by way of the lakes, they passed over the portage at the falls. The boundless region in which they were gathered knew no jurisdiction but that of the French whose trading-canoes were safe in all the waters, whose bark chapels rose on every shore, whose missions extended beyond Lake Superior. The implacable Foxes were chastised, and driven from their old abode on the borders of Green Bay. Except the English fortress at Chap. XXIII.} Oswego, the entire country watered by the St. Lawrence and its tributaries was possessed by France. The same geographical view was applied by the French to their province of Louisiana. On the side of Spain, at the west and south, it was held to extend to the River del Norte; and of the map published by the French Academy, the line passing from that river to tile ridge that divides it from the Red River followed that ridge to the Rocky Mou