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Excerpt from Recollections of Antoine Grignon There were three children in the family, Paul, Archange, and myself, and although our parents had but a limited education, they determined to give their children the best opportunities within their reach. So I was taken to Col. Zachary Taylor, who permitted me to attend the school conducted in the garrison, thus laying the foundation for an education. Col. Zachary Taylor was a very active man, alert, rough, and quick, but the soldiers thought a great deal of him, and my father admired him above all men. He was kind to those in need and did what he could for the betterment of the inhabitants of Prairie du Chien in my day. I'll never forget his negro servant, whose skin was as black as tar; I first saw him when I was a youngster some seven years old, and was nearly frightened out of my wits, and ran home as fast as my trembling limbs could carry me. My! But I was afraid of that black man, as I called him. He used to take delight in frightening me when he found how afraid I was of him. I next went for two terms to a private school conducted by a Mr. Cady. [cadle] 7 then John Haney became my teacher. There were no public schools in that day at Prairie du Chien, and the parents of the pupils in the private schools paid the teacher a certain amount each month for their instruction. I remember, too, my French teacher, a Mr. Gibault, who also taught English; and a lady by the name of Mrs. Crosby who held school in her home. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Great Lakes Creoles offers the history of Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, from the perspective of its Native Amerian and French founders, as they endured the Anglo-American colonization in the 19th century.
Trempealeau County is in the western part of Wisconsin, on the Mississippi River. It is bounded on the east by Jackson County, on the north by Eau Claire County, on the west by Buffalo County, as well as by Winona County across the Mississippi River in Minnesota. The area belongs entirely to the Mississippi system, and is separated into three distinct divisions, the Trempealeau Prairie Region, the Trempealeau Valley Region and the Beef River Region. The county was created Jan. 24, 1854.