Wau-Bun - The Early Day in the Northwest (Dodo Press) (Paperback)

Wau-bun: The Early Day in the Northwest (1873), recounts the author's experiences of life at Fort Winnebago, Wisconsin, in the early 1830s. She describes her journeys back and forth to the early settlement of Chicago and her complex cultural encounters with a diverse frontier society. The book also describes in detail the lives of Native Americans at the time and includes an eyewitness description of the Fort Dearborn Massacre. By the American, historian, writer and pioneer of the American midwest.