. Lost Maramech and earliest Chicago; a history of the Foxes and their downfall near the great village of Maramech; . authority,other than the river courses, I believe that not all ofthe French goods were brought up the stream toMaramech and the half dozen other towns along theriver Pestekouy. Many were brought up from FortSt. Louis, that, from its establishment by La Salleto about 1700, was an entrepot; but much was car-ried from the lake near where now is Racine, Wis.,to the little lakes where forms the stream. In St. Cosmes account of his voyage down theMississippi river, he speaks of the p
. Lost Maramech and earliest Chicago; a history of the Foxes and their downfall near the great village of Maramech; . authority,other than the river courses, I believe that not all ofthe French goods were brought up the stream toMaramech and the half dozen other towns along theriver Pestekouy. Many were brought up from FortSt. Louis, that, from its establishment by La Salleto about 1700, was an entrepot; but much was car-ried from the lake near where now is Racine, Wis.,to the little lakes where forms the stream. In St. Cosmes account of his voyage down theMississippi river, he speaks of the portage betweenthe head of Root river, that adds its mite to LakeMichigan at Racine, Wis., and the head of the Foxriver of Illinois, and of the route he would havetaken to reach the Mississippi but for the low waterin the rivers at that season of the year. This route,that I have before spoken of as the one taken by theFrench in bringing goods to Maramech, he calls theriver Pistrid, and tells us that it enters the Illinoisabout twenty-five or thirty leagues from Maramech many trails met. Over them came. The Kishwaukee trail, worn deep by heavy feet, and feet so light, still scarsthe Hill. [Photo by the Author.) AND EARLIEST CHICAGO 43 visiting tribes and roving bands of hunters. Alongthe larger creek, where now stands the old mill builtof wood, gray in its decay as the miller who cateredfor years to the needs of the hungry settlers, was anextension of the great village of Maramech. The hill, so fatal to the Foxes a generation afterit was deserted by the Miamis, rose between the twoparts of the town, and hugged the creek so closelythat the way from one to the other could only bemade by passing over its narrow summit where itdroops to little more than half the height of thepeak so near, which peak, in times of danger, servedthe purpose of a lookout. Deeply worn are still thepaths that formed the terminus of the KishwaukeeTrail—doubly worn by denizens of the divided vil
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