FOOTNOTES:

[1] See Mrs. Kinzie's "Wau-Bun" for a description of the difficulties of travel in "the early day," via Dixon's Ferry.

[2] Ten dollars per boat, and fifty cents per 100 lbs. of goods.

[3] Described in Mrs. Kinzie's "Wau-Bun," which gives many interesting reminiscences of life at the old post.

[4] Butterfield's "Discovery of the Northwest" (Cincinnati, 1861).

[5] See Mrs. Kinzie's "Wau-Bun" for reminiscences of Four Legs.

[6] Wis. Hist. Colls., vol. ii. p. 425.