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CHICAGO AND THE OLD NORTHWEST
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
Agents
THE CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON AND EDINBURGH
THE MARUZEN-KABUSHIKI-KAISHA
TOKYO, OSAKA, KYOTO
KARL W. HIERSEMANN
LEIPZIG
THE BAKER & TAYLOR COMPANY
NEW YORK
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MARQUETTE AT THE CHICAGO PORTAGE
From the bas relief by H. A. MacNeil
(Courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society)
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CHICAGO AND THE
OLD NORTHWEST
1673-1835
A STUDY OF THE EVOLUTION OF THE
NORTHWESTERN FRONTIER, TOGETHER
WITH A HISTORY OF FORT DEARBORN
By
MILO MILTON QUAIFE, PH.D.
Professor of History in the Lewis Institute
of Technology
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
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Copyright 1913 By
The University of Chicago
All Rights Reserved
Published October 1913
Composed and Printed By
The University of Chicago Press
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
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PREFACE
There are many histories of Chicago in existence, yet none ofthem supplies the want which has induced the preparation of thepresent work. It has been written under the conviction thatthere is ample justification for a comprehensive and scholarlytreatment of the beginnings of Chicago and its place in the evolutionof the old Northwest. I have endeavored to produce areadable narrative without in any way trenching upon the principlesof sound scholarship. To what extent, if any, I havesucceeded must be for the reader to judge. I may, however,claim the negative virtue of entire freedom from the motives ofcommercial gain and family partisanship, which enter so largelyinto our local historical literature.
In preparing the work I have made as diligent a study of thesources as practicable, at the same time availing myself freely ofthe studies of others in the same field. With one exceptionacknowledgment of my obligations to the latter is made in thefootnotes. The manuscript of a lecture by the late ProfessorCharles W. Mann on the Fort Dearborn massacre was put atmy disposal. I have used it as far as it served my purposewithout attempting to cite it in the footnotes.
In many places I have broken new ground and I can scarcelyexpect my work to be entirely free from error. I am particularlyconscious of this