Note 315 — Chapter VI · THE FOUNDING OF FORT DEARBORN
Reading edition
Mrs. John H. Kinzie, Wau Bun, the "Early Day" in the Northwest, Caxton Club edition. This work has been reprinted several times since its first appearance in 1856. Page references to it in this work are to the Caxton Club edition of 1901.
[316] See, for example, Mason, "Early Visitors to Chicago," in New England Magazine, VI, 205-6.
[317] The following sources, on a study of which the accompanying account of Du Sable is based, contain practically all the information I have been able to collect concerning him: Kinzie, Wau Bun, 146; De Peyster's allusion, in speech to the Indians at l'Arbre Croche July 4, 1779, in Wisconsin Historical Collections, XVIII, 384; McCulloch, Early Days of Peoria and Chicago, 91-92; "Recollections of Augustin Grignon," in Wisconsin Historical Collections, III, 292; Lieutenant Bennett's report of arrest of Du Sable, August, 1779, in Wisconsin Historical Collections, XVII, 399; inventory of goods taken from Du Sable by Bennett, in Michigan Pioneer Collections, X, 366; Journal of Hugh Heward (MS original owned by Clarence M. Burton of Detroit; I have used the copy in the Chicago Historical Society library'); Schoolcraft, Personal Memoirs, 478; Draper Collection, S, Vols. XXI and XXII, passim; McCulloch, "Old Peoria," in Illinois State Historical Society, Transactions, 1901, 46.
[318] Matson, N., French and Indians of Illinois River, 187-91. Matson's information purports to have been obtained from a grandson of Du Sable.
[319] McCulloch, Early Days of Peoria and Chicago, 91.