First Christmas Near Lost Life of First Settler
A local historian recalls the 1847 Christmas tale of Nathan Myrick, pioneer settler, who attempted a supply journey from La Crosse to Prairie du Chien. A winter flood, overturned canoe, and a treacherous river crossing led to a perilous night on the Ohio River bank before rescue and shelter with local Indigenous people.
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FIRST
la Crosse
Nathan Mycick
Horatio Cartik
Eher
Wells
Main Street
Ois
Ting
Mr. Myrick
Praine du Chien
Ife
Badhire
Sony Finnvy
Gourney
The Eclipse of the Cubists at Paris Salon d Automme
The Great Paris Salon d Automme opens showing few works from the cubist and other new schools and many pieces from the traditional elf tradition.
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Paris
Isms
Ridents
Lie
Lyons Camp Narrates Old West Bandits Saga
In Lyons Iowa travelers meet Little Ella at a tourist camp and hear E L Hurlbut recounts of the Timber Wolves gang terrorizing central west towns. A 1840 Bellevue conflict sampled, with Brown's gang facing a sheriff posse in a night battle and a fatal outbreak at Mitchell's home.
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Ella
Lyons
Iowa
Clinton
Hegan
Lila
America
Mississippi
Horper
E. L. Hurlbut
Central West
Paris
Uliasis
Wisconsin
Missouri
Indiana
Kentucky
Texas
Louisiana
Tore
Hurlbut
Bellevur
W. W. Brown
Brown
Hellévue
Illinois
Jackson County
Thompson
Mitchell
Warren
Carmly
Sherriff
Bowie
The Bellevue bandits and the river voyage
The narrative recounts a violent Bellevue bandit episode with hangings debated by beans, later memories of the carnage and vigilante shifts. It then follows the author’s river journey from Clinton to Rock Island, meeting Dan Wingett, a prewar underground railroad camp, and Captain Orrin Smith, reflecting on rapids pilots and a future canal.
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Timber Wolves
Clinton
Dan Wingett
Par
Buffalo
Alexis
Fifth Avenue Department
Canada
Eula
LeClair
Orrin Smith
Rock Island
Myst
Mississippi
Davenport
Pleasing grounds and grim factories amid river cities
A reflective traveler contrasts scenic picnic grounds and handsome govern ment buildings with dreary brick factories in Davenport and Rock Island. He muses whether pleasant factory exteriors could lift worker morale and hints at historic scenes from Blackhawk era and a river journey ending at Battle Island, then notes Lapland’s inhabitants as curious detail.
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Davenport
Rock Island
Ilinois
Blackhawk
Mississippi
Battle Island
Indian race not dying out says U S commissioner
U S assistant Indian commissioner B Merritt notes 340 917 Indians in the United States an increase of about 18 400 since ten years ago. He credits better housing and more medical facilities with 15 physicians 60 nurses and seven field matrons. He says 66 000 Indian children attend schools and urges higher appropriations to educate every school age child.
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Washington, D. C
B. Merritt
United States
Indian Service
Merritt
Also Mentioned on This Page
Nathan Myrick
Cluh
Masgereene
London
Kay Bong Beatire
Merry Christmas
Moss Shoe Co., Inc
E. W. Olds
F. A. Ruplin
Tri-State Ice Cream Corp
Arosa
Bellevue
Col. Davenport
Skat
THE
Skat Company
Hartford
Lapland
Kureprah
U.S
A. R. Callahan, D. D
Northern Tinois College of Optometry
Barron Building
Main St
the National Bank of la Crosse
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