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Pioneer Reminiscenses 1880 History of Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin |
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| VII. -By Ebenezer Childs,
1858
The next day [early in February, 1838] i started alone from Fort Winnebago,
[now Portage] for Green Bay. There was not then a house between Fort Winnebago
and Fond du Lac. The snow was deep across the prairies. I overtook
two Stockbridge Indians nearly exhausted from fatigue and cold. I
carried them in my jumper to the first timber, where we stopped and made
a large fire and left them. The snow was so deep that my horse could not
draw them. They stayed there until the next day and got home safe.
If it had not been for me, they would undoubtedly have perished on the
prairie. I arrived at Green Bay safe and sound. There was then but one
house between Fond du Lac and Green Bay. The first log house erected in
Fond du Lac was built in 1836; and Thomas Green kept the first public house
there..
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