By far the most extensive and valuable account of the war. The author's sympathies are too strongly enlisted on the side of the whites, however, to entitle it to be ranked as an impartial history. The work is profusely illustrated.
Steward, John F. Lost Maramech and Earliest Chicago (Chicago, 1903).
Stiles, Henry Reed (editor). Joutel's Journal of La Salle's Last Voyage 1684-1687 ... New edition with historical and biographical introduction, annotations, and index (Albany, 1906).
This is a reprint of the English edition of Joutel's Journal published in 1714. It is an incomplete and garbled translation of the original, which is printed in Margry, Vol. III.
Stoddard, Major Amos. Sketches, Historical and Descriptive, of Louisiana (Philadelphia, 1812).
The author was sent by the government of the United States to take possession of Louisiana in 1803, and he became the first territorial governor.
Swearingen, James Strode. Papers in the Chicago Historical Society library (MS).
These consist of three documents, copies, apparently, of the originals, which were loaned for this purpose by Lyman C. Draper. They comprise an interview with Swearingen by an agent of Draper in 1865; a letter of Swearingen's written at that time, concerning his share in bringing the troops from Detroit to Fort Dearborn in 1803; and a detailed account of his subsequent career. For a fuller account of these papers see Quaife, "That First Wilderness March to Chicago," in Chicago Record-Herald, August II, 1912. Their existence has been unknown until recently, and no use has hitherto been made of them by students.
Tanner, John. A Narrative of the Captivity and Adventures of John Tanner ... during Thirty Years Residence among the Indians of the Interior of North America. Prepared for the press by Edwin James, M.D. (New York, 1830).
Tanner journeyed from Mackinac to St. Louis in 1820 by way of the Chicago Portage and Illinois River. The book contains a valuable account of the crossing of the portage in the dry season of the year.