. The North and West illustrated for tourist, business and pleasure travel : The popular resorts of California, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, Dakota, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, northern Michigan and Minnesota. A guide to the lakes and rivers, to the plains and mountains, to the resorts of birds, game animals and fishes; and hints for the commercial traveler, the theatre manager, the land hunter and the emigrant . est, and were buried on thespot. The Tumuli or Mounds, indicating theirburial place, gave to the spot the name of Buttesdes Morts (Hills of the Dead), and
. The North and West illustrated for tourist, business and pleasure travel : The popular resorts of California, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, Dakota, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, northern Michigan and Minnesota. A guide to the lakes and rivers, to the plains and mountains, to the resorts of birds, game animals and fishes; and hints for the commercial traveler, the theatre manager, the land hunter and the emigrant . est, and were buried on thespot. The Tumuli or Mounds, indicating theirburial place, gave to the spot the name of Buttesdes Morts (Hills of the Dead), and which alsooriginated the name of Lake Buttes des Morts, onthe northwestern boundaries of this city. 73. 62 The North and West Illustrated. Many were the wild scenes of frontier life thattranspired here during the early occupancy of theFrench traders ; incidents that would make a vol-ume in themselves, and which are interwoven in-separably with its history. During the year 1836, a treaty was made at CedarRapids with the Menomonee Indians, by GovernorDodge, acting as commissioner, which resulted inthe cession to the United States of over 4,000,000acres of land, lying north of Fox river and west ofLake Winnebago. The city was incorporated in 1853. At this timethe population was about 2,500. The great event for Oshkosh was the extensionof the Chicago & North-Western Railway to thisplace, giving it connection by rail with the outside. Beaumont House, Green Bay—page 66 world. The first train arrived on the 13th ofOctober, 1859. The city of Oshkosh is situated on one of the finestcommercial sites in the Northwest, at the mouth ofthe Upper Fox river, on the western shore of LakeWinnebago. It is a situation of great naturalbeauty, overlooking the picturesque lake and riverscenery of the vicinity. Lake Winnebago and theFox and Wisconsin rivers formed the great com-mercial highway of the Northwest before the ageof railroads, and many a glowing description wasthen written of the beautif
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