Wau-Bun - The Early Day in the Northwest by Juliette Augusta Magill Kinzie
The hardships and pleasures of life on the frontier come vividly to life in this classic memoir. This book is a key narrative of early Illinois history, written with considerable literary flair by a woman whose adult life was inextricably connected with the development of the state and its metropolitan center, Chicago. Juliette Kinzie lived at Lake Winnebago, in what is now Wisconsin, from 1830 to 1833, as the wife of John Kinzie, then the area’s only U.S. government Indian agent. Her husband's parents had settled on Lake Michigan early in the nineteenth century, and among memorable passages in Kinzie’s book in her description of Chicago at the time when its civilian population numbered fewer than fifty people.
