Identifier: lostmaramechearl00lcstew (find matches)
Title: Lost Maramech and earliest Chicago; a history of the Foxes and their downfall near the great village of Maramech;
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Stewart, John F(letcher), 1841- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Fox Indians -- History Kendall County (Ill.) -- Antiquities Chicago (Ill.) -- History
Publisher: Chicago, London (etc.) F. H. Revell company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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uette,as we find in the latters journal, in which we readas follows: We gathered all the knowledge thatwe were able from savages who had frequented theplaces, and even traced, from their reports, a map ofall the new country; we laid down the rivers we shouldnavigate, the names of the people and the places weshould pass, the course of the Great River and thepoints of the compass (direction) we should take.Many towns are laid down by Marquette that henever saw. The map he drew before starting onthe voyage may have been the very one left us.The information given him by the natives was acces-sible for many years before 1673. 46 LOST MARAMECH The fact that the Falls of St. Anthony (merelywritten Sauf) are shown on the map under consider-ation does not prove that the map was made laterthan the expedition of Michael Acou,the trader,and Hennepin, the priest, who were sent up the Mis-sissippi river by La Salle, because traders had beenthere before. Natives had also brought details that enabled
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Fragment of John Andrews Map of 1782, One of the Firstto Show Fox River and Give Its Present Name. cartographers to lay down rivers far beyond anypoint where white men had been. I credit the firstknowledge we get of the Pestekuoy River (the Foxriver of Illinois) to Allouez, and believe him tohave also given those who drew some of the othermaps, the knowledge which enabled them to laydown the beautiful river which courses the region soabundant in the gifts of Nature. The lake at itshead, the saut, rapid, (quite likely that where theruined dam now frets the waters and the old stone AND EARLIEST CHICAGO 47 mill frowns), and the junction of the river with theIllinois, all show a fair amount of knowledge gained,possibly, as early as 1669-70, when Allouez visitedthe various tribes around Green Bay and west andsouth thereof. The tribe that now most interestsus is known to have been at the bend of Wolfriver in what is now Sugar Bush township, Outaga-mie county, Wisconsin; the Mascoutins are p

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