Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers
CHAPTER LI.
Trip to Detroit--American Fur Company; its history and organization--American Lyceum; its objects--Desire to write books on Indian subjects by persons not having the information to render them valuable--Reappearance of cholera--Mission of Mackinack; its history and condition--Visit of a Russian officer of the Imperial Guards--Chicago; its prime position for a great _entrepôt_--Area and destiny of the Mississippi Valley.