Note 926 — Chapter XV · THE VANISHING OF THE RED MAN
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Jeremiah Porter wrote in his journal at the time, "thousands are around us" (Chicago Times, December 19, 1875). The Chicago Weekly Democrat, August 19, 1835, estimated the number present at from two thousand to four thousand. John Dean Caton, who was a resident of Chicago and deeply interested, in the Indians, puts the number (Miscellanies, 139) at live thousand.
[927] Journal of Jeremiah Porter, in Chicago Times, December 19, 1875.
[928] Chicago Weekly Democrat, August 19, 1835.