Note 887 — Chapter XV · THE VANISHING OF THE RED MAN
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Latrobe (Rambler in North America, II, 201) says the number was estimated at five thousand. Shirreff says (Tour through North America, 227) "it was supposed nearly 8,000 Indians were assembled." Porter says (Earliest Religious History of Chicago, 71) that on the appointed day "Indians began to pour in by thousands." All three writers were in Chicago while the treaty was being negotiated.