Chicago, a history and forecast . Says Mr. Quaife, in his accompanying historical narrative:Broadly speaking. Fort Dearborn was Chicago for almost threedecades. * * * When the troops arrived at the mouth of theChicago River in August, 1803, they found here several tradershuts or cabins, three of which were occupied by French Canadians. Permission of Central Trust Company of Illinois, the picture being copy ofone of a series of mural historical paintings in that bank by Clarence C. Earle. through the wilderness; and Chicago lay on one of theprincipal routes of travel between the two great river
Chicago, a history and forecast . Says Mr. Quaife, in his accompanying historical narrative:Broadly speaking. Fort Dearborn was Chicago for almost threedecades. * * * When the troops arrived at the mouth of theChicago River in August, 1803, they found here several tradershuts or cabins, three of which were occupied by French Canadians. Permission of Central Trust Company of Illinois, the picture being copy ofone of a series of mural historical paintings in that bank by Clarence C. Earle. through the wilderness; and Chicago lay on one of theprincipal routes of travel between the two great riversystems of the continent, the St. Lawrence and the Mis-sissippi. Here at the south end of Lake Michigan thetraveler could portage his canoe from the Chicago Riverto the upper waters of the Illinois, where he found him-self upon a ready highway leading to the farthest sourcesof the thousand tributaries of the Father of Waters. Thus it was inevitable that the site of Chicago shouldbe known to Europeans from the time when they first
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