. The Chicago massacre of 1812 : with illustrations and historical documents. here ? Whatbrought their few and scattered footprints to the groundsince then trodden by millions ? The following pages will try to answer these questions,beginning with the very earliest permanent settlementof what is now Chicago. PART SECOND. HISTORICAL AND BIOORAlIIICAI. HOW CHICAGO BiiGAN AND WHO WERE ITS BEGINNERS. PAHT SECOND. CII.\PT1;R I Till-: DARK in:i()Ki: Tin: dawn. i:S()Lirii:i,V, ihouKli un-willin^lw I ])ciss ovLT tlicroniaiUic liislorN- of the firslcciiliii V (jI Chicaj^^os annals,the IVcnch period hci
. The Chicago massacre of 1812 : with illustrations and historical documents. here ? Whatbrought their few and scattered footprints to the groundsince then trodden by millions ? The following pages will try to answer these questions,beginning with the very earliest permanent settlementof what is now Chicago. PART SECOND. HISTORICAL AND BIOORAlIIICAI. HOW CHICAGO BiiGAN AND WHO WERE ITS BEGINNERS. PAHT SECOND. CII.\PT1;R I Till-: DARK in:i()Ki: Tin: dawn. i:S()Lirii:i,V, ihouKli un-willin^lw I ])ciss ovLT tlicroniaiUic liislorN- of the firslcciiliii V (jI Chicaj^^os annals,the IVcnch period hci^innin^aboul i^jS, enil^racin;; ^ story of La Salle,MarcjiiettL and their braveIcliow Catholics. Let us take npthe tale when, in 1778. during the-1^ Revolutionary war; just as ^-great George Rogers Clark was-capturing Indiana, Illinois and infact the whole Northwest, from the?i> luiglish ; one Colonel A rent Schuy-. ler de Peyster (a New York ofTicer-iy of the British army, in commandof Iort Mackinac) wrote somedoggerel verses which bring Chi-cago into modern history and •= In one ofhis poems he speaks of Ivschickagou and of JeanBaj)tiste Pointe de Saible who li\ed there, and in a foot-note he describes the place as a river and fort at thehead of Lake Michigan, and the man as a handsomenegro, well educated, but much in the hrench interest. E.\RLY JKSflT. ?Sfc appfjulix .\. After the ptacc. Colont-l ilc rcyst
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