The history of Columbia county, Wisconsin, containing an account of its settlement, Part 58

Author: Butterfield, Consul Willshire, 1824-1899, [from old catalog] ed; Western historical company, chicago, pub. [from old catalog]
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Chicago, Western historical company
Number of Pages: 1104

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At the first session of the State Legislature, which continued from June 5 to August 21, 1848, the State was divided into three Congressional Districts, Columbia County falling into the Third District, composed of the counties of Washington, Sheboygan, Manitowoc, Brown, Winnebago, Calumet, Fond du Lac, Marquette, Dodge, Jefferson and Columbia. This appor- tionment continued unchanged until 1861. The Third District was represented during that period as follows: Thirty-first Congress, 1849-51, James Duane Doty ; Thirty-second Con- gress, 1851-53, John B. Macy ; Thirty-third Congress, 1853-55, John B. Macy; Thirty-fourth Congress, 1855-1857, Charles Billinghurst ; Thirty-fifth Congress, 1857-59, Charles Billing- hurst ; Thirty-sixth Congress, 1859-61, Charles H. Larrabee; Thirty-seventh Congress, 1861-63, A. Scott Sloan.

At the fourteenth session of the Legislature of Wisconsin, continuing from January 9 to May 27, 1861, the State was divided into six Congressional Districts, Columbia County falling into the Second District, composed of the counties of Rock, Jefferson, Dane and Columbia. For

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the next ten years, the Second District was represented in Congress as follows : Thirty-eighth Congress, 1863-65, Ithamar C. Sloan ; Thirty-ninth Congress, 1865-67, Ithamar C. Sloan ; Fortieth Congress, 1867-69, Benjamin F. Hopkins ; Forty-first Congress, 1869-71, Benjamin F. Hopkins, who died January 1, 1870, and was succeeded, February 15 of the same year, by David Atwood; Forty-second Congress, 1871-73, Gerry W. Hazleton.

The present Congressional apportionment was made at the twenty-fifth session of the Legis- lature of Wisconsin, continuing from January 10 to March 27, 1872, when the State was divided into eight districts, Columbia County again falling into the Second District, composed of the counties of Jefferson, Dane, Sauk and Columbia. In the Forty-third Congress, 1873-75, the district was represented by Gerry W. Hazleton ; in the Forty-fourth, 1875-77, by Lucien. B. Caswell; in the Forty-fifth, 1877-79, by Lucien B. Caswell ; in the Forty-sixth, 1879-81, by Lucien B. Caswell.

PHOTOGRAPHING THE PIONEERS.

Some time ago, a plan was inaugurated to preserve photographs of pioneers of Columbia County. The result is the collection, in what is now the gallery of S. L. Plumb, in Portage, of a considerable number of negatives, which are to be preserved for future generations. The " counterfeit presentments" of the following persons have, up to the present time, been secured :

J. J. Guppey, Henry Merrell, C. C. Britt, O. P. Williams, Hugh McFarlane, Israel Holmes, A. Chamberlin, Josiah Arnold, George Payne, Samuel M. Carr, E. L. Jaeger, Volney Foster, Thomas Drew, Sr., G. M. Oddie, John Williamson, Joseph Ludwig, George Wall, Carl Hærtel, D. T. Eastman, J. F. Hand, G. C. Prentiss, Elbridge Curtis, Solomon Leach, Elisha A. Wells, J. W. Roades, M. M. Ege, Fred C. Curtis, R. O. Loomis, Benjamin Dey, W. P. St. John, Job Purnell, Alexander Carnagie, William Sylvester, S. Race, R. C. Rockwood, V. Helmann, W. H. C. Abell, Jesse Van Ness, H. S. Haskell, Jonathan Whitney, S. S. Brannan, Samuel Edwards, John Orthman, E. Hagan, William Wier, Henry Carpenter, Gordon H. Mer- rell, H. B. Munn, Jacob Township, C. Collipp, William Armstrong, S. S. Johnson, Earl A. Fargo, Thomas Raynolds, John Peterson, Thomas Lee, B. J. Pixley, Thornton Thompson, A. J. Turner, N. H. Wood, James Prentice, Hiram Sexton, D. H. Langdon, George Shackell, D. A. Goodyear, G. C. Jackson, Mr. Larmouth, H. M. Ayer, E. F. Lewis, Theodore Thomas, S. M. Smith, Horace Rust, Samuel Berry, Alexander McMillan, Thomas Walker, M. W. Pat- ton, Hugh Doherty, Alva Stewart, B. F. Flower, C. C. Dow, John Reedal, Joseph Hartman, Sat. Clark, Mr. Shulze, A. Bates, A. Brown, P. S. Hollenbeck, Peter Houston, L. S. Dixon, G. W. Webb, Emmons Taylor, William Bates. John Leatherman, S. W. Herring, Charles Spear, P. Pool, Elijah Johnson, F. B. Langdon, William McDonald, William Holden, Marcus Barden, Charles Baker, G. T. Morrison, John Converse, D. Buchanan, Peter Drake, D. Van- dercook, G. N. Richmond, F. L. Henry, D. B. Peck, A. McDonald, A. O. Green, James Wil- son, J. R. McMillan, Seth Allen, S. Calverly, A. Voertman, A. A. Bull. C. R. Gallett, J. T. Clark, Robert Balentine, John Foot, William Mckenzie, Samuel IIerriman, John N. Kind, T. L. Kennen, Chauncy Roberts, Donald Ferguson, George W. Morrison, John Palmer, George W. Bennett, W. Tillotson, Hans H. Tongen, James Patterson, D. C. Berry.

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CHAPTER V.

PIONEER REMINISCENCES.

BY THOMAS L. MCKINNEY-MRS. MARGARET C. LOW-JOHN T. DE LA RONDE-SATTERLEE CLARK-MRS JOIIN H. KINZIE-HENRY MERRELL-J. T. KINGSTON-ROBERT L. REAM- HUGH MCFARLANE-N. H. WOOD-WILLIAM T. WHIRRY-AMPLIUS CHAMBERLAIN-MOSES M. STRONG-CHARLES WILITTLESEY-FREEDOM SIMONS-G. W. FEATHERSTONHAUGII.

I .- BY THOMAS L. MCKINNEY.

On the morning of the 3d [of September, 1827, at the portage], having little else to do, I busied myself to find out, if I could, how the Indians could, without danger, capture the rattle- snake. This whole country is full of them, and so constant is the noise of their rattles, when anything happens to molest them, that the ear is kept half the time deceived by what seems to be the ticking of watches in a watchmaker's window. I was honored by a visit from one in my tent, that morning, and was prompted by that call, perhaps, to find out in what way my civilities might best protect me from their too close attention. I was told that the smell of tobacco made the snake sick ; and this explained why, in two instances in which I had witnessed the taking of this reptile by the Indians, tobacco was employed. They also employ a root (but of what herb or shrub I could not find out), which they pound and put on a stick ; then they excite the snake to bite it, when the poison of the root, being taken into the snake's mouth, kills it. I was told that they take from the neck of the turkey-buzzard a piece of the flesh, and dry and pound it, and rub their bodies with this powder. Thus guarded, the snake will not bite or come near them. How true all or any part of all this is, I cannot vouch, never having made trial of either.

At 9 in the morning, in company with Count de Lillier, Judge Lecuyer and Rev. Mr. Jones (a Protestant Episcopal clergyman-the first settled at Green Bay), I started for a descent of the Wisconsin River. Having crossed the Fox River to the opposite landing, on the portage, an ox-cart was provided for our transportation across to the Wisconsin, the width of the portage being about twenty-five hundred paces. The entire way was miry and full of rattle- snakes. The veteran interpreter, Pauquette, was employed to drive us over. The wheels of the cart, though broad, sank deep into the mud, and the sturdy beasts bent to their duty ; but without the constant employment of Pauquette's powerful arms and the exertion of his great strength in applying to their sides repeated strokes from what seemed like a hoop or hop pole, exciting them, meantime, with his stentorian voice, and giving vent to anathemas, in Winne- bago, with almost every breath, we must have been forced into some other conveyance or taken to our feet in mud a foot deep, to have in any reasonable time reached the Wisconsin. But, by the aid of the hop-pole and the Winnebago anathemas, both well understood, doubtless, by the oxen, we were carted over in safety. When about midway, and during one of the numerous pauses which the oxen were wont to make, the man bearing the flagstaff of my canoe struck, with the lower end of it, a rattlesnake that lay near where Panquette was standing-for he walked the entire distance. The snake, enraged at the blow, gave signs of resistance, and, apprehending it might dart its fangs into Pauquette's legs, I stooped from the cart and ran it through with my sword, when one of the men cut off its head with an ax. Whether Pauquette trusted to his leather leggins and moccasins, or their being well imbued with tobacco-smoke, or the powdered root, or the buzzard's neck, I did not learn ; but he was as composed in regard to these reptiles as if he had been mailed in brass or iron.

Having crossed the portage, our canoes, supplies and our baggage being all over, we embarked at 11 o'clock, A. M., on the Wisconsin. The current which we had been oppos- ing, the entire length of the Fox River, was now in our favor; the waters of the Wisconsin

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running from its source to the Mississippi, as do those of the Fox River on the other side of the portage, into Green Bay. The first find their way through the lakes into the ocean by the St. Lawrence, and the last by the way of the Mississippi and the Gulf of Mexico. Whether after having started for those diverse directions, from sources so near one another, they ever meet and mingle more in the deep blue sea, is a problem which I do not pretend to solve. I could not help thinking how closely they resembled early friends, who in boyhood were hand in hand with each other, and rarely, for a series of years, out of one another's sight, when at last "some current's thwarting course " separated them, to meet no more forever.

II .- BY MRS. MARGARET C. LOW.

I was born on the 17th day of March, 1793. My father, Stephen Foulk, emigrated from England at an early day when a young man, and settled at Carlisle, Penn .; married Miss Carson, of Philadelphia, by whom he had ten children. She died and he married a second time-Miss Thornburgh, of Philadelphia, she not living but a short time. There were no chil- dren by the second marriage. He married Sarah De Lap, of Adams County, Penn. a Scotch lady, who bore him seven children, of whom I was the youngest. He established the Holly Iron Works, six miles from Carlisle. During the Revolution, he could not make up his mind to fight against his mother country, but assisted the patriots with money and materials, as he was a man of much wealth. My brother Willis was in the United States Army ; was wounded in the side at the battle of Chippewa, and brevetted Major General. All of the family belonged to the Church of England.

I was married to Gideon Low August 10, 1815. He was born in Pennsylvania and was commissioned Ensign in the regular army on June 1, 1812. He was made Second Lieutenant of the Twenty-second Infantry in April, 1813 ; First Lieutenant, in February, 1814; but his company in June, 1815, was disbanded. After this we were married, as I have just mentioned, and my husband embarked in the dry-goods business. He was wounded in the hand by splin- ters from a boat in which he was, on Lake Ontario, when a shot from the British fleet struck the boat, the marks of which he bore to his grave. We lived in Easton, Penn., for three years or a little over. Mr. Low got re-instated in the army as Second Lieutenant in a rifle company, February, 1819, and was ordered to St. Louis, where we moved in the spring of that year, and next March moved to Belle Fountain. My husband was made First Lieutenant in that month, and Assistant Commissary of Subsistence in April following. He was ordered to Fort Edwards, on the Mississippi, in July, to re-establish it, as it had been abandoned in consequence of the excitement in regard to the Indians. He took a company of riflemen and re-organized the fort. While there, Maj. B. F. Larned, Paymaster, arrived at the landing with money to pay troops at Fort Snelling. The men had not been paid for two years. Maj. Larned could not pay them (the rifle corps) until he received orders from Washington, which the men could not understand, and they determined to rob him. Capt. Low had gone to the village. I sent a servant with milk to the company quarters, as I was in the habit of doing, but he returned saying the sentry would not pass him, something I did not understand, but I said I would see if I could pass him. As I approached the sentry, he said he could pass me out. No, I said, I did not wish to go out. I then saw the Captain coming, and I called to him, as I saw by the man's priming his gun that he was going to shoot. As he came up, the man pointed his gun at him, which he kicked up and knocked the man down ; then, seizing his gun, he knocked down eight or ten more of the guard who were forming, and ordered the drummer to call the roll. The men formed without their arms and had to submit. He sent some of the leaders into the guard-house and thus quelled the mutiny. The Major went on to Fort Snelling and paid the troops there. He always thought he owed his life to the energetic action of Capt. Low.

In 1821, we moved in keel-boats to Fort Snelling, where we remained but a few months when my husband was ordered back to Fort Edwards, to relieve Maj. Marston. After a year and a half, Lieut. Low was ordered to Fort Armstrong under Maj. Vose. He remained there

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eighteen months; he was then ordered to Jefferson Barracks where we remained until ordered to Green Bay, in 1828. In August of that year, he was commissioned Captain. The Captain transported me and my two daughters in a small boat from St. Louis to Green Bay, by way of the Mississippi, Wisconsin and Fox Rivers. Gen. Twiggs was in command at Fort Winnebago, living in log buildings. In 1831, the Captain was ordered to Fort Winnebago, under Maj. Plympton, who was relieved by Col. E. Cutler. Afterward the command fell successively to Maj. Clark, Maj. Green, Maj. Cobb, Capt. Low, Capt. Jewett and finally to Lieut. Mumford, when he (Mumford) was, in 1845, ordered to evacuate the fort and remove all the property to St. Louis.

Capt. Low resigned his commission the 29th of February, 1840, and we retired to private life. I had two daughters, Margarette F. and Elizabeth Missouri. Margarette was born in Easton, Penn .; was married to Charles Temple and removed to Vermont. He was a lawyer. but turned his attention to civil engineering. Subsequently, he returned to Wisconsin, and settled at Mineral Point, taking charge of the railroad as engineer. During the duties thereof, he contracted a disease of which he died. Elizabeth M. was born in St. Louis, Mo., and was married to Henry Merrill, at Portage, in 1847, but died in 1853, leaving a son and daughter. The Captain died in May, 1850, at Portage.

It will be seen that I have traveled from St. Louis by keel-boats to Fort Snelling and back, and from St. Louis, by way of the Mississippi, Wisconsin and Fox Rivers, to Green Bay by small boat, at an early day, when there was no other mode of conveyance. When we were going to Fort Snelling, in crossing Lake Pepin, the wind rose and the soldiers became frightened. and called to the men to let go the sail as the water was dashing into the keel-boat ; but the Captain saw it would not do, as we would be cast on to the rocks. He therefore caught up an oar or pole and said the first man who attempted to let go the sail he would knock into the lake, which savel us. I expected we would be sunk and put my two children to bed that they need not be fright- ened, as they were very young.

While living in Carlisle, before I was married, I was very fond of horseback riding, and traveled from Carlisle to Bradford, eighty miles, in two days, and from Carlisle to Baltimore, about eighty miles, in two days, and back in two days. While stationed at Fort Winnebago, I trav- eled, in the fall of 1832, after the Black Hawk war, from Fort Winnebago to Galena. Ill., on horseback.

At Fort Winnebago, I was well acquainted with Mr. Kinzie, the Indian agent, and his wife, and Gen. Twiggs, who turned traitor and surrendered his troops to the rebels in Texas. I knew Jefferson Davis at Jefferson Barracks, near St. Louis, when he joined the army as Second Lieutenant, from West Point. He was afterward ordered to Fort Winnebago, and thence to Fort Snelling under Col. Taylor (afterward General and President). While there, he got leave of absence and went to Cincinnati, where the Colonel's daughter was at school, and married her without the knowledge of the Colonel, and sent in his resignation, settling in Mississippi. His wife died within a year, and her parents never saw her after her marriage.

I was at Fort Winnebago during the Black Hawk war, when we had many fights, but notli- ing serious happened. At one time, a large party of Winnebagoes, who all claimed to be friendly to the whites, came on horseback to the fort, avowedly to assist in defending it. They wanted to come into the fort to encamp there, but Maj. Plympton, who was in command, would not allow them, but told them to encamp outside the stockade. There were but few soldiers in the fort, as a company had been picked out and sent to Lake Koshkonong, under Capt. Low. It was thought by many if they had been let in, the force would have been massacred. Being denied admission they all rode off. At one time, there were some rangers (militia) encamped on the bank of the Wisconsin River, one and half miles from the fort, and one evening there was heavy firing heard over there, and it was supposed Indians had attacked them, which caused much fright. Mr. Kinzie was living at the agency house, on a hill opposite the fort, half a mile off. The family ran over to the fort; old Mrs. Kinzie, Mr. Kinzie's mother, left the supper-table and came into the fort with a biscuit in her hand, not knowing it, until her attention was called to it. The report proved to be the soldiers discharging their pieces.

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III .- BY JOHN T. DE LA RONDE .*

My father, Louis Denys, Chevalier de La Ronde, was born at Detroit, Mich., during the period when his father, Francis Paul Denys de La Ronde, an officer in the French service, was stationed there, several years prior to the final surrender of Canada and its dependencies to the English, in 1760. After the death of my grandmother, my grandfather returned to France and was killed, with one of my uncles, at La Colle, in 1785, when Gen. Blackstone lost his life.

My grandfather was the son of Louis Denys de La Ronde, an early commandant at Che- goimegon, on Lake Superior ; and, returning to Quebec, he died there in consequence of wounds received in two different engagements. One of my uncles, Philip Louis Denys de La Ronde, was killed at the fall of Quebec, September 13, 1759. He was a captain of marines, and served under Montcalm.t

After the death of my grandfather, my father, who was Colonel, and in service in the French Army, remained in France till the battle of Waterloo. After the defeat of Napoleon, not wish- ing to live under the rule of Louis XVIII, he came to Canada with all his family, and was admitted a partner in the Northwest Company. He died soon after, and was buried in the Cath- olic Church of St. Anne, Montreal, May 12, 1818.

I was born in Bordeaux, France, the 25th of February, 1802. After I left the College of Montreal, in 1816, I studied medicine under the direction of Dr. Robert Nelson V. Smith ; remaining with him, however, but a short time after my father's death. I had made the acquaint- ance of some clerks of the Northwest Company, and, in 1819, engaged myself to that company for the term of seven years. During this time, I went to London, England, as a witness in the dispute between the Hudson Bay Company and the Northwest Company. These two companies subsequently effected a compromise, and the business thereafter was carried on by the Hudson Bay Company, to whose service I was transferred. In 1826, my time of service having expired, I engaged for two years more.

After my time was out as clerk for the Hudson Bay Company, April 10, 1828, I came to the straits of Sault Ste. Marie ; thence across to the American side, where I met Roderick Mckenzie and Joseph Cadott, who were coming up to Mackinaw; thence to the Mississippi, to visit that region and enjoy the excitement of hunting. I came to Mackinaw in a small bark canoe, and thence to the portage, in Wisconsin, now called Portage City, the 29th of May, 1828. There were at the portage, a log-house and barn, which then formed a trading-post of the Ameri- can Fur Company ; and Peter Pauquette and his family lived there. Pauquette was in charge of the post ; he was then absent at Washington, to assist in making a treaty between the Gov- ernment and the Winnebago Indians. John Kinzie, the sub-agent, and Judge Doty, Cha-ge- ka.ka, the son of Cha-chip-ka-ka, or the War Eagle, and Black Wolf's son, Dandy, called the Little Soldier, Yellow Thunder and his wife, and some others, went with him. The post was erected almost opposite where the mill was subsequently built on Fox River, and since burnt. There was another house where the sub-agent was living ; and still two others, occupied by half- breeds, and on the other, or east side of Fox River, there was a nice house belonging to Francis Le Roy, son of Joseph Le Roy, of Green Bay. Francis Le Roy was married to Therese Lecuyer, a half-breed woman ; the house was built where the fort is now. He used to keep merchandise to trade with the Indians, and to transfer boats from the Fox to the Wisconsin River.

De-kau-ry, or Scha-chip-ka-ka, was principal chief of the Winnebagoes, often called by his countrymen Ko-no-koh De-kau-ry, meaning the eldest De-kau-ry. Scha-chip-ka-ka was the son of Chou-ke-ka, called by the whites Spoon De-kau-ry, who was the son of Sabrevoir De Carrie, corrupted into De-kau-ry, an officer in the French army in 1699, under De Boisbriant ; he resigning his commission in 1729, became an Indian trader among the Winnebagoes,

*: The foot-notes to the reminiscences of Mr. de La Ronde, marked " L C. D.," are by Lyman C. Draper, LL.D., of Madison, Wis .- ED. +There was a La Ronde, probably Denys the elder, an officer at Louisburg, in 1733. Ensign Denys de La Ronde, evidently the younger, was sent to Chegoimegon, Lake Superior, in June, 1747, and, ten years later, in July, 1757, was slightly wounded, while serving as Captain ·of French grenadiers, at Ticonderoga. See N. Y. Colonial Documents, V. 970 ; X 167, 1086. L. O. D.

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subsequently taking for a wife the head chief's sister, named Wa-ho-po-e-kau, or the Glory of the Morning. After living with her seven or eight years, he left her, and their two sons, whom she refused to let him take away, but permitted him to take their daughter. De Carrie re-entered the army, and was mortally wounded at Quebec, April 28, 1760, dying of his wounds at the hospital at Montreal. His eldest son, Chou-ke-ka, or the Spoon or Ladle, was made a chief. and was quite aged when he died at the portage, about 1816 ;* and, at his request, was buried in a sitting posture on the surface of the ground, with a small log structure over it, surrounded by a fence. I saw his burial-place in 1828, when the red-cedar posts, of which the fence was made, were yet undecayed. His widow died, two miles above Portage, about 1868, at a very advanced age. The old chief's sister, who had been taken by her father to Montreal, and edu- cated there, was married to Laurent Filly, a Quebec merchant, whose son, of the same name, was long a clerk for Augustin Grignon.

Chou-ke-ka was succeeded by his son, Scha-chip-ka-ka, who had six brothers and five sisters. One of the brothers was called Ruch ka-scha-ka, or White Pigeon, called by the whites Black De-kau-ry ; another, Chou-me-ne-ka-ka, or Raisin De-kau-ry ; another Ko-ke-mau-ne-ka. or He-who-walks-between-two-Stars, or the Star-walker; another Young De-kau-ry, called by the whites, on account of his trickish character, Rascal De-kau-ry ; another Wau-kon-ga-ko, or the Thunder Hearer, and the sixth, Ongs-ka-ka, or White Wolf, who died young. Of the sisters, three married Indian husbands ; one married a trapper named Dennis De Riviere, and afterward Perrish Grignon ; the other married John B. Lecuyer, the father of Madame Le Roy.

At the western end of the portage, there was a warehouse built, and three houses where Perrish Grignon and his wife, sister of the chief De-kau-ry, were living; the second one was occupied by his son, Lavoin Grignon ; the other one by J. B. Lecuyer. Mr. Le Roy was living near where Mr. O. P. Williams' house was subsequently located. He told me that Maj. Twiggs, of the Fifth Regiment of infantry, required the place where his first house stood for post purposes ; for which, however, he paid him well.

From the portage we went, in June, 1828, to the Mississippi. I had heard much about the Painted Rock, about twenty miles above the mouth of Black River; and while Mckenzie and Cadott were looking for places to set their traps, I went to see the Calumet or Painted Rock. The Indians travel many hundred miles to obtain the red stone with which to make their pipes, and, while they are on that rock, not one will draw a bow or wield a hatchet against his most deadly enemy. I was sitting under a projecting rock of one of those bluffs, when I saw an Indian advancing on horseback. I kept hid from his view, that I might watch his motions, for I could see by his rigging of feathers, paint and beard that he was a chief of some tribe, which I judged to be the Sioux, from his long hair, nor was I mistaken. He was a powerful fellow, armed with his bow and arrow and shield, and his horse was as noble an animal as ever trod the prairies. When he arrived at the base of the bluff, he turned his horse loose, and walked upon the rock in silence for a few moments ; his lips moved as if engaged in prayer, then, taking a quantity of tobacco, he scattered it upon the rock. This ceremony being finished, he took a good smoke, and then commenced hammering upon the rock until he had knocked off a large piece, which he began to fashion into a pipe. I had just made up my mind to show myself and make his acquaintance, when I saw another Indian coming rapidly on horseback toward the bluffs. Anxious to see how the two Indians would meet each other, I continued to remain con- cealed from their view, and then watching the new-comer, who advanced without slackening the speed of his horse, until he drew up to the foot of the same bluff where the other Indian was. Like the former, he turned his horse loose, took a portion of tobacco which he scattered upon the rock, and, after having mumbled his prayer, he filled his pipe, and proceeded to the spot where the other Indian was manufacturing a pipe. He quietly took a seat beside him ; then lighted his pipe, and, after drawing one or two puffs, handed it to the other, who, after a few whiffs, returned it to the owner. They seemed, by their actions, to be on the best of termns; but as they did not speak together, I became a little suspicious of their true feelings, and

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The history of Columbia county, Wisconsin, containing an account of its settlement, Part 58

Author: Butterfield, Consul Willshire, 1824-1899, [from old catalog] ed; Western historical company, chicago, pub. [from old catalog] Publication date: 1880 Publisher: Chicago, Western historical company Number of Pages: 1104

Author: Butterfield, Consul Willshire, 1824-1899, [from old catalog] ed; Western historical company, chicago, pub. [from old catalog]
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Chicago, Western historical company
Number of Pages: 1104