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HISTORY OF WISCONSIN

IN THREE PARTS,

Historical, Documentary, and Descriptive.

COMPILED BY DIRECTION OF THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STA

BY

WILLIAM R. SMITH,

PRESIDENT OF THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN.

PART I-HISTORICAL.

VOL. I.

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MADISON, WIS.:

BERIAH BROWN, PRINTER.

1854.

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Commenced under their direction, and fostered by their generos designed as a compilation of ancient annals in relation to this portio: the Mississippi Valley; intended to form the foundation of a trut History of the State, to be collected and preserved from time to ti while passing events are fresh in the memories of contemporaries; fessing to exhibit an accurate picture, at the present day, of a regio country whose beauty of scenery, fertility of soil, mineral wealth, facil of commerce internal and external, and healthy climate, are unsurpas in the Union, and whose rapid growth in population, and still increa prosperity, have hitherto been unexampled in the history of our land, compilation of the same being now published under legislative autho it is most properly, and very respectfully,

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