Curator of Charleston Museum J Long, Ind
Published: 2017-10-26
Total Pages: 246
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Excerpt from Voyages and Travels of an Indian Interpreter and Trader: Describing the Manners and Customs of the North American Indians; With an Account of the Posts Situated on the River Saint Laurence, Lake Ontario, &C In June, 1780, he joined a party of Canadians and In dians who were sent from Mackinac to Prairie da Chien to secure the deposits of furs at the latter place, and prevent them from falling into the hands of the emis saries of George Rogers Clark from the Illinois, and the Spaniards from St. Louis. After a march through Wisconsin, this undertaking was successfufly aecom plished the furs that could not be saved being burned to keep them from the enemy.' 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.