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[1852] . W. A. Barron ALS to L. F. Thurber; [Fond du Lac, Wisconsin].

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Box 1
Abstract:
Describes Fond du Lac, cost of produce, inhabitants, and their occupations. Comments on high rate of immigration, noting French, Irish, Dutch, Norwegian, English, and African American migrants, "... and now and then an American." While travelling, encountered few white settlers except a family of Irish and Native American descent. Heard wolves: "they began to make musick for us I think that for about a mile and a half that there was six or eight woolvs following us they was so neer to us that we could here them jumping in the brush and howling like the roleing thunder." Spent the night with a Native American man. For a man to succeed in the region, "it takes a man that is weel addapted to getting Drunk and gambling." Includes a note in a later hand about the relation of the letter's author to the Huntington family.
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3 pages

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Collection

Western America collection, 1797-ca. 1898
Total components 105
Last indexed 2024-08-05