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Discover the early days of the Northwest through the eyes of Mrs. John H. Kinzie in this book, where she offers an unfiltered account of her travels, letters, and journals that document the early settlement of the Western homes. From Green Bay to Chicago, Kinzie shares her experiences, encounters with Native Americans, and the trials and tribulations of frontier life. A must-read for anyone fascinated by American history, the American frontier, and the people who shaped it.
Every work partaking of the nature of an autobiography is supposed to demand an apology to the public. To refuse such a tribute, would be to recognize the justice of the charge, so often brought against our countrymenÑof a too great willingness to be made acquainted with the domestic history and private affairs of their neighbors. It is, doubtless, to refute this calumny that we find travellers, for the most part, modestly offering some such form of explanation as this, to the reader: "That the matter laid before him was, in the first place, simply letters to friends, never designed to be submitted to other eyes, and only brought forward now at the solicitation of wiser judges than the author himself." No such plea can, in the present instance, be offered. The record of events in which the writer had herself no share, was preserved in compliance with the suggestion of a revered relative, whose name often appears in the following pages. "My child," she would say, "write these things down, as I tell them to you. Hereafter our children, and even strangers, will feel interested in hearing the story of our early lives and sufferings." And it is a matter of no small regret and self-reproach, that much, very much, thus narrated was, through negligence, or a spirit of procrastination, suffered to pass unrecorded.
Wau-bun, the "early day" of the North-west is awork by Juliette Kinzie. It depicts the hard times at the Western frontier with its hostile tribes, dangerous journeys and impending starvation periods.
In 1830 a young woman named Juliette Magill Kinzie moved from her fancy home in Connecticut to a rustic log cabin in what would later be called Wisconsin. Juliette's memoir, Wau-Bun: The Early Day in the Northwest, is an important first-person account of life on the western frontier.