How George Rogers Clark Won the Northwest And Other Essays in Western History
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Croix, and near the present town 1 See Parkman's Half-Cmtiiry of Cojtfiict, Hebberd's Wisconsin under French Dominion (Madison, 1890), and Wis. Hist. Colls. , xvi. , xvii. 2 Neill, in Minn. Hist. Colls. , v. , p. 140, says that soon after St. Lusson's taking possession of the Northwest for France, at Sault Ste. Marie (1671), French traders built a small fort set about with cedar palisades, on which a cannon was mounted, "at the mouth of a small creek or pond mid- way between the present locatio...n of the American Fur Com- pany's establishment and the mission-house of the American Board of Foreign Missions/' 250 Essays in Western History of Red Wing, Minnesota. The post in the Mississippi soon became " the centre of com- merce for the Western parts. " The station in Chequamegon Bay also soon rose to import- ance, for the Chippewas, who had drifted far inland into Wisconsin and Minnesota with the growing scarcity of game, — the natural result of the indiscriminate slaughter which the fur- trade encouraged, — were induced by the new trading facilities to return to their old haunts, massing themselves in an important village on the southwestern shore.
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