Note 785 — Chapter XIV · WAR AND THE PLAGUE

For the occurrences at Prairie du Chien see James H. Lockwood's narrative, Wisconsin Historical Collections, II, 157 ff.

[786] Ibid., II, 329.

[787] On the rapidity of Cass's descent of the Mississippi see Young, Cass, 96; Smith, Cass, 189-90: Schoolcraft says (Personal Memoirs, 267) that the entire circuit from Butte des Morts to Saint Louis, and back again by way of the Illinois River and Chicago, was made "in an incredible short space of time."