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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1 5 1 Browse Search
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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 7: Fort Winnebago, 1829-31. (search)
went for a frolic to the Great Lakes. On his journey he left his trail through the prairies, and this collected the waters from the meadows, and the rains from heaven as they fell, and became the Fox River. Wau Bun; or, The Early Day, by Mrs. John H. Kinzie, page 80, to whose sprightly and valuable book I am indebted for much information of the Indian country. In the front lay an extent of meadow, across which was the portage road, about two miles in length, between the Fox and Wisconsin Rivegency was established at this portage. At Fort Winnebago Lieutenant Davis was again busy with the improvements upon the fort, enlarging and perfecting the defence of the approaches as the hostility of the Indians became more pronounced. Mrs. Kinzie gives a humorous account of his efforts to furnish the garrison quarters. She describes his furniture thus. After saying she was to have two rooms in General Twiggs's house until her own could be built, she said: The one in the rear
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 10: Fort Crawford, 1832-33. (search)
ad little of the education of the schools; but, as he once said in speaking of them to a friend, Sustained effort, danger, and the habit of living alone with nature had developed a thousand radical virtues. Their conversation was interlarded with so many frontier phrases, heard nowhere else, that it entertained him greatly. They coined words sometimes from the sound; a strip of rawhide in that day was called a whang, probably because of the noise it made when plaited into a whip. Mrs. Kinzie adds one example of the mode of expression of these people, of which Mr. Davis gave many instances. A miner, who owned a wife and baby, in taking leave of us, wished us well out of the country, and that we might never have occasion to return to it. I pity a body, said he, when I see them making such an awful mistake as to come out this way, for comfort never touched this western country. There was a class of frontiersmen engaged in convoying travellers to and fro, up the rivers and