Wau-Bun, The Early Day in the Northwest
Author: first_name: Juliette
last_name: Kinzie
Language: English
Year: 1856

Newlyweds John Kinzie and Juliette Magill Kinzie moved to Detroit and then the newly-built Fort Winnebago in central Wisconsin in 1830. John Kinzie was the son of a fur trader and an Indian sub-agent to the Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) people. After the Black Hawk war ended in 1833 the Kinzies moved to Chicago.
In this book Juliette Kinzie relates her own experiences in Wisconsin as well as the frontier experiences in Wisconsin and Chicago of her relatives. - Summary by Ted Lienhart