. Historical sketch of the park region about McGregor, Iowa, and Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. into the neighboring regions, but it did differfrom that into some portions of the United States, inas-much as it was less arduous. Pioneers traveled by steam-boat over the Great Lakes to Milwaukee or Chicago, or 23 down the Ohio and up the Mississippi River to somelanding place, thence by horse or ox team to their des-tinations. Rarely did they make the entire journeyfrom the East by wa^on. The few foreign immigrantswho came did so mostly by the way of New this refers to the true pioneers
. Historical sketch of the park region about McGregor, Iowa, and Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. into the neighboring regions, but it did differfrom that into some portions of the United States, inas-much as it was less arduous. Pioneers traveled by steam-boat over the Great Lakes to Milwaukee or Chicago, or 23 down the Ohio and up the Mississippi River to somelanding place, thence by horse or ox team to their des-tinations. Rarely did they make the entire journeyfrom the East by wa^on. The few foreign immigrantswho came did so mostly by the way of New this refers to the true pioneers; for those who cameto tliis region after 1850 cannot truthfully be ranged aspioneei-s. The facilities of easy water transportationbrought the necessities and many of the comforts of lifewithin reach of the enterprising pioneer, but the lazyand shiftless did without the comforts and sometimesthe necessities then, even as they do now. In early days changes came slowly. The first railway,that reached Prairie du Chien in the spring of 1857,marked the beginning of many changes. Since then two. Mussel Fishing important industries, lumber-rafting and mussel-fishing,have had their rise and fall. In recent yeara there maybe seen occasionally the flat-bottomed boat of a lone mus-sel-fisherman, locally called a clammer, such as for-merly dotted the river by the hundreds. With his four-pronged, crowfoot grapple he drags the bottom of the 24
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