What to see in America . ey looked landward from their canoes, whenthey had reached the vicinity of the present Milwaukee,they saw numerous crows and eagles hovering above some-thing that proved to be a deer killed by a wolf. Thistided them over the worst of their stress. The fur trade long remained the principal business of theinhabitants, of whom there were only 12,000 whites in 1836,when Wisconsin was set off as a territory. The site for thecapital of the infant territory was selected from seventeenrivals for the honor, some of them actual settlements, butothers paper towns that existed onl
What to see in America . ey looked landward from their canoes, whenthey had reached the vicinity of the present Milwaukee,they saw numerous crows and eagles hovering above some-thing that proved to be a deer killed by a wolf. Thistided them over the worst of their stress. The fur trade long remained the principal business of theinhabitants, of whom there were only 12,000 whites in 1836,when Wisconsin was set off as a territory. The site for thecapital of the infant territory was selected from seventeenrivals for the honor, some of them actual settlements, butothers paper towns that existed only on the maps made byreal estate speculators. One the latter, Madison, was the winner, and a surveyorsent to set the stakes forthe State House arrivedin a blinding Februarysnowstorm. The onlyman he found there wasa French half-breed, whohad put up a temporarytrading shanty, half brushand half canvas. Theplace had only one hun-dred and seventy-two in-habitants half a dozenyears later, and Indianwigwams were frequently. Temple Gate, Apostle Islands Wisconsin 257 set up within sight of thedoors of the Capitol. Per-haps no city in the statebetter repays a visit thanthe present picturesqueness of itslocation could hardly beexcelled, for it is builtbetween tw^o lakes w^hichare not only within thecity limits, but are veryclose to the businesscenter. The famous chief,Black Haw^k, during hiswar with the whites, re-treated from Illinois in1832 across the Wisconsinline to the headwaters ofthe Rock River near LakeKoshkonong. A force of
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