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Title: Lost Maramech and earliest Chicago; a history of the Foxes and their downfall near the great village of Maramech;
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Stewart, John F(letcher), 1841- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Fox Indians -- History Kendall County (Ill.) -- Antiquities Chicago (Ill.) -- History
Publisher: Chicago, London (etc.) F. H. Revell company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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s cabin occu-pied by Indians and travelers—the latter few, theformer numerous. The point of wood now laid down as PichesGrove is but a continuation of the heavy timberthat lines the southern bank of the Fox river, and isless than five miles from the site of the ancient townwhere I have placed the hut of this lone Indian and * The honey-bee is not known in the perfectly wild countriesof North America. It is ever the pioneer of civilization, andthe Indians call it the white mans bird. 342 LOST MARAMECH his family. The fact that they started early andreached Species Grove by nine oclock shows thatthey were probably as much as five miles westtherefrom, which would place them at SylvanSpring. Following the Sac Trail for a little dis-tance, they reached a cross-trail that, at that time,paralleled the eastern bank of the Fox river fromOttawa half way to Chicago. The Big Woods were anywhere along Foxriver, near Batavia, near Aurora, and, in fact, any-where where tall timber was to be found.
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The Chiefs Wigwam. Tama Reservation. CHAPTER XXIII At the Tama reservation, sitting by the fire in themiddle of the rush-mat-covered lodge of Chief Pu-ci-to-nig-wa, with his counsellors and interpreters, Ifound around me much of what we are so often toldin narratives of travelers through the west morethan two hundred years ago. The domicile of thechief shows no change; it is precisely like thosedescribed by Alouez, Perrot, and others. Rattlesconsisting of gourds filled with pebbles serve, nowas then, at the ceremonial dances. Nothing mod-ern is seen except an occasional trunk or basketaround the walls of the cabin, mingled with thosehome-made, of leather, with thongs for locks.Mats serve as beds, some raised and some upon thefloor of well-beaten earth. The blankets are of thekind first given in exchange by the early traders.At the middle of the cabin a space is left for thefire. Over its embers hangs a chain, upon whichthe kettle is suspended. Rush mats, neatly sewnand supported upon

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