Un Payement de Menomonies, 1838
Neveu, Gustave de, 1811-1881View Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyAn account written in 1855 by de Neveu of his visit in October 1838 to the Wolf River to witness the payment to the Menominee Indians of their annual payment from the United States government. A typed…
Letter by Reverend Father Etienne de Carheil to Monsieur Louis Hector de Callieres, governor [on conditions in the Upper Lakes in 1702]
Carheil, Etienne de, 1633-1726View Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyFather Carheil explains -- at times in graphic detail -- how lust and greed corrupted nearly everyone connected with the fur trade at the western posts. Fur trade voyageurs, hunters, explorers and mer…