Fifty Years In The Northwest - With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes

At the age of nineteen years, the author landed on the banks of the Upper Mississippi, pitching his tent at Prairie du Chien, then at 1836, was a military post known as Fort Crawford. The author kept memoranda of the many of the events that transpired. He decided to publish this book to reflect that fifty years spent amidst the early and first white settlements, and continuing till the period of civilization and prosperity, as itemized by himself, an observer and participant in the stirring scenes and incidents depicted.