Question: how far is appleton wi from oshkosh wi

title: Fox River (Wisconsin)
text: Prior to European settlement in the late 17th century , the shores of the Fox River and Green Bay were home to roughly half the estimated 25,000 Native Americans who lived in what is today Wisconsin . The first Europeans to reach the Fox were French , beginning with explorer Jean Nicolet in 1634 . In 1673 explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet canoed up the river as far as Portage . Here they made the short portage from the Fox to the Wisconsin River and then canoed on toward the Mississippi River . They established an important water route between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River known as the Fox -- Wisconsin Waterway . It was likely long used by Native Americans prior to European encounter , as they had extensive cross-country trading routes related to the Mississippi River .