SERIES: Pictorial History of the United States and Territories
SCENES: The French Missionary on the Lake; Battle of Chicago, 1812; Birds-eye View of the Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893.
SIZE: 5" x 3"
DATE: 1892
LITHOGRAPHER: Donaldson Brothers, N.Y.
CONDITION: Very good, I'd say. This card is lightly soiled with slightly worn edges and corners. The front has several tiny scrapes at the stern of the canoe and one above the Indians' heads. (Please see scans.)
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REVERSE TEXT: ILLINOIS.
THE first Europeans to visit this State were the envoys of religion and commerce. Jean Nicolet discovered Lake Michigan in 1634, and in 1673 Father Marquette and Louis Joilet crossed Wisconsin by the Fox and Wisconsin rivers, and descended the majestic Mississippi, being the first Europeans to see Illinois, whose people welcomed them with festivals and peace-pipes as they ascended the tranquil Illinois River.
La Salle and Tonti, in 1679, made further explorations. In 1680 La Salle and Hennepin founded Fort Créve-Coeur. French settlements and missions were and an important French commerce flowed between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi Valley by the Chicago and Illinois rivers. Fort Dearborn was erected by the Government at Chicago in 1804. In 1812 it was evacuated by the garrison under orders, but before they had marched a league on their way to Fort Wayne, 500 Potowattomies attacked the column and massacred two-thirds of them, capturing the remainder and holding them for ransom. The Mormons founded Nauvoo, on the Mississippi, in 1840, and erected an imposing temple, but their doctrines aroused among the settlers an opposition which became serious. In 1844 Joseph and Hiram Smith, the Mormon apostles, were put in prison at Carthage, where a mob overpowered the guards and slew them. A year later the Mormons abandoned Nauvoo, and set out on their march beyond the Rocky Mountains.
