The principal trading-posts, at that period [1824], in Northern Wisconsin, were the following: Milwaukee, Sheboygan and Manitowoc, on Lake Michigan; Menomonee River, Peshtigo and Oconto on Green Bay; Fond du Lac, Calumet and Oshkosh, on Winnebago Lake; Wolf River, Lake Shawano and the portage of the Fox and Wisconsin.  At all these points, Indian villages were located; and it is a remarkable feature in the settlement of Wisconsin, that all or nearly all of the principal cities which now meet our view were originally sites of Indian villages.  For many years prior to 1824, the northern portion of Wisconsin was occupied by the Winnebagoes, Menomonees, Chippewas and some Pottawatomies.  but the two first-named tribes owned nearly all of the country in the present State lying on Lake Michigan and the Mississippi, Wisconsin, Fox and Wolf Rivers; the Winnebagoes, on the west side of Winnebago Lake, on the Upper  Fox and on the Wisconsin, the Menomonees on teh east side of Winnebago Lake, on the Lower Fox, on the Wolf River, on Green Bay and on the west shore of Lake Michigan. Both of these tribes were then powerful and held in great awe by the few white inhabitants then in this country. The Winnebagoes, in 1824, numbered perhaps upward of siz thousand; the Menomonees between three and four thousand..