Early Lee County Being Some Chapters in the History of the Early Days in Lee Co
Early Lee County Being Some Chapters in the History of the Early Days in Lee Co
William D Barge
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Nor is any mention of the issue of a license to trade there made in his subsequent reports, so it is fair to con- clude none were issued since November, 1826, although he did report, February, 1829, that "the following are the trading posts now established * * Chicago * Fever river * * Forks of the river Iroquois * Grand Detour on Rocky river * * Rock river * among the Winnebagoes fifty miles from the mouth of Rock river. " (20th Cong. ; 2nd Sess. ; Ho. Doc. 117. ) Mrs. Kinzie tells us, in Wcuu...bun, that after they left Dixon, on their journey from Fort Winnebago to Chi- cago, in 1831, their guide lost the way and led them along a trail that ". Brought us to the great bend of the river with its bold rocky bluff, " and it is common knowledge that every Indian trail led to an Indian village. It is incomprehensible that so many men would, of their own volition, choose Grand Detour as the site of their trading posts, unless there were Indians there with whom they could trade. We know, from the great number of arrow heads, flints and other things evidencing the prior existence of an Indian village, that have been found north of Rock River, and a little west of the road leading to the bridge at Grand Detour, that there once was an Indian village across the river from the bold rocky bluff Mrs.
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