Identifier: picturesqueameri01brya (find matches)
Title: Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878, editor Bunce, Oliver Bell, 1828-1890
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Publisher: New York, D. Appleton
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Catholic chapel still stands at La Pointe, where the Indians and half-breeds as-semble to receive instruction from an old French priest. The islands, of which, by-the-way, each apostle might take two, are all beautiful, alovely archipelago, contrasting with the sterner coast to the north and east. At Bay-field, on the main-land opposite, is the United States agency for the Chippewa Indians,and here they receive their annual payment, coming in from all quarters in their canoes,and showing not a few noble outlines among the young men, and not a few faces LAKE SUPERIOR. 403 worthy of admiration among the younger maidens. There is yet some romance lefton Lake Superior, in spite of the prosaic influence of the Cornish miners and Yankeecapitahsts. It is but a few years since a young man of education and refinement, whilepaddling a canoe along-shore, came suddenly upon an Indian girl standing on the beach.She was so beautiful that he could not forget her, and, after some days, he sought the
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Clift near Beaver Bay. place again, and found her with her parents in their wigwam. In spite of himself, andwith all the world and its influence against it, his fancy grew into love. The fatherheard of the infatuation, and in haste sent his son eastward for a years visit among theAtlantic cities, hoping that the change and an insight into fashionable life would weanhim from his dark-skinned love. But no; for a time after his return he did not speak 464 PICTURESQUE AMERICA, of her, neither did he seek the wigwam. But suddenly it all came back in an hour,and one morning he was missing, nor could any trace be found until an old fishermanbrought word that he had seen the youth paddling toward the west in a canoe, with theIndian girl in the stern, decked in all her finery of feather-work and beads. The bridewas a Roman Catholic, like most of the Chippewas, and the two were married by amission-priest. The father pursued, but it was too late. At the head of Lake Superior is the St. Louis Riv

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