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[Bottom two paragraphs on Prairie du Sac? and Prairie du Crosse obscured by typewritten newspaper clipping on Prairie du Chien].

important points on the Mississippi in Wisconsin, and is determined undoubtedly to become hereafter an place of much business. In 1832 twenty six Menomonee Indians were killed by a war party of the Sauks and Foxes within the town of Prairie du Chien, "in the heaving of its inhabitants and in sight of the fort which was" as we are informed by Schoolcraft "made the subject of demand by the government for the [succuday?-illegible] of the murderers, and produced the concentration of troops on that frontier, which [evacuated?] in the Indian war of 1832-" The following account of Prairie du Chien was published in a Galena paper in 1839: