Wau Bun the Early Day in the North West

This is a major document of early Illinois and Wisconsin history written with flair by an observant and energetic woman. Kinzie, married to the only US government Indian Agent in the area, was an erudite easterner who found herself living at Lake Winnebago in what now is Wisconsin. She travelled a lot from Wisconsin to Chicago and back. In this book she describes the pleasures and difficulties of frontier life, the days of Chicago when the civilian population was less than 50, relations between