Contains a graphic description of the village of Chicago at the time of the author's visit in the winter of 1834.
Hubbard, Gurdon Saltonstall. Autobiographical Sketch (MS).
Hubbard first visited Chicago as an employee of the American Fur Company in 1818. With the development of the modern city in the early thirties he became, and remained for half a century, one of its prominent citizens. This manuscript deals with his early career in the fur trade. It forms the basis of the published Life of Hubbard.
——. Incidents and Events in the Life of; Collected from Personal Narratives and Other Sources and Arranged by His Nephew, Henry E. Hamilton ([Chicago,] 1888).
This work, while written in the first person and largely drawn from the Hubbard manuscript cited above, is not strictly an autobiography, a fact sufficiently indicated by the title. Taken as a whole it constitutes a valuable and graphic picture of the methods of conducting the fur trade in the halcyon days of the American Fur Company, and of the manner of life incident thereto. It is of chief value to the present work for its account of the passing of the Chicago Portage. A new edition of the work was issued in Chicago in 1911 with the title The Autobiography of Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard: Pa-pa-ma-ta-be, "The Swift Walker."
Hulbert, Archer Butler. Portage Paths: the Keys of the Continent (Cleveland, 1903).
This work constitutes Vol. VII of the series "Historic Highways of America."
Hull, William. Memoirs of the Campaign of the Northwestern Army of the United States, A.D. 1812. In a series of letters addressed to the citizens of the United States. With an appendix containing a brief sketch of the Revolutionary services of the author (Boston, 1824).
This work contains Hull's own exculpation to his countrymen for his course in the campaign of 1812.
Hurlbut, Henry H. Chicago Antiquities. Comprising original items and relations, letters, extracts, and notes pertaining to early Chicago (Chicago, 1881).