Wau-Bun: The Early Day in the Northwest
An Antebellum Memoir of Fort Winnebago, Early Chicago, and Native-Settler Life in the Great Lakes FrontierBy Mrs. John H. Kinzie
Length12h 3m
About this audiobook
First published in 1856, *Wau-Bun: The Early Day in the Northwest* combines memoir, travel narrative, local history, and ethnographic observation to evoke the Great Lakes frontier during the 1830s, particularly the communities surrounding Chicago and Fort Winnebago. Drawing on personal experience and recollection, Mrs. Kinzie describes military posts, domestic life, settler networks, Native nations, and the tensions surrounding the Black Hawk War. Its polished, anecdotal prose alternates between intimate scenes and broad historical retrospection, giving the work both the accessibility of a literary narrative and the evidentiary interest of an early regional record. At the same time, its romanticized frontier perspective and assumptions about Indigenous peoples reveal the cultural politics of nineteenth-century American expansion. Juliette Augusta Magill Kinzie, published as Mrs. John H. Kinzie, possessed an unusually intimate vantage point on this formative period. Married to John H. Kinzie, a military officer and member of a prominent Chicago family, she lived amid the rapidly changing settlements and outposts of the Old Northwest. Her observations were shaped by family memory, firsthand encounters, and the conventions of women's domestic and travel writing, through which she transformed private experience into a public account of regional origins. The book is recommended to readers of American frontier history, Indigenous-settler studies, women's life writing, and Chicago's early history. It should be read both as a vivid primary source and critically, with attention to the silences and biases produced by colonial memory.
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GenreHistory
Length12 hrs 3 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 22, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Old Mackinaw; Or, The Fortress of the Lakes and its Surroundings
23CHAPTER XXI.
2PREFACE.
24CHAPTER XXII.
3THE "EARLY DAY" IN THE NORTHWEST.
25CHAPTER XXIII.
4CHAPTER I.
26CHAPTER XXIV.
5CHAPTER II
27CHAPTER XXV.
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6CHAPTER IV.
28CHAPTER XXVI.
7CHAPTER V.
29CHAPTER XXVII.
8CHAPTER VI.
30CHAPTER XXVIII.
9CHAPTER VII.
31CHAPTER XXIX.
10CHAPTER VIII
32CHAPTER XXX.
11CHAPTER IX.
33CHAPTER XXXI.
12CHAPTER X.
34CHAPTER XXXII.
13CHAPTER XI.
35CHAPTER XXXIII.
14CHAPTER XII.
36CHAPTER XXXIV.
15CHAPTER XIII.
37CHAPTER XXXV.
16CHAPTER XIV.
38CHAPTER XXXVI.
17CHAPTER XV.
39CHAPTER XXXVII.
18CHAPTER XVI.
40CHAPTER XXXVIII.
19CHAPTER XVII.
41APPENDIX.
20CHAPTER XVIII.
42I.
21CHAPTER XIX.
43THE END.
22CHAPTER XX.
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