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Midwst Pioneers: Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Volume 15
Historical records related to the early settlement of the Great Lakes region.
Description
This database is a collection of several different kinds of important historical documents published by the
State Historical Society of Wisconsin. In this volume, several documents reveal how Native Americans
conveyed land and access rights to pre-Territorial pioneers and others show how the Presbyterian and
Methodist churches took root in early Wisconsin. The Presbyterian missionary, Cutting Marsh, sent annual
reports to the Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge, and these are published here along
with other papers and a biographical sketch of his life and work among the Stockbridge Indians at
Statesburg (Kaukana). Alfred Brunson, a Methodist minister, wrties of his journey on horseback from
Pennsylvania to Wisconsin in 1835. Elizabeth Therese Baird (Whose girlhood was chronicled in volume 14)
is represented here by her "Reminiscences of Life in Territorial Wisconsin," (1824-1842), and
there is a complete diary by Mathias Duerst, a leader the Swiss colony at New Glarus. Another Swiss
immigrant, Theodore Rodolf, writes of "Pioneering in the Wisconsin Lead Region" (1834-1848). This
volume also includes a Sac legend, "Osawgenong," and the narratives of a fur-trader, a surveyor, and others
involved in early commercial activities. A "Report on the Quality and Condition of Wisconsin territory," by
Samuel Stambaugh, the Indian Agent at Green Bay, describes Wisconsin just before it acquired Territorial
status.
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