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Excerpt from Discovery and Conquests of the Northwest, Vol. 1 of 2: With the History of Chicago It would not be just for me to introduce the reader to the following pages, without first gratefully acknowledging a lasting debt of obligation to Mr. L. Z. Leiter, for his generous assistance, thereby enabling me to bring this work before the public in a style which the good taste of Chicago people will approve. And here it can with truth be said, that, he has always manifested a lively interest in every effort to obtain and give to the public a complete history of our City and State, and to give aid to every work aiming at a higher life or public utility. It has been twenty years since the first volume of this work was written, since which time many of the pioneers of Chicago have passed away. They have gone ere they had lived to see what may now be called, with no impropriety, the second stage of this City's growth. From interviews with them the writer obtained much material as to the infancy of our City, when it consisted of board sidewalks, without curbing, precariously nailed to sleepers resting on mud; streets thrown up of alluvial soil, or in some cases covered with plank in a slip-shod manner, vibrating up and down as carriages passed over them. Most of the private houses were made of boards nailed on a slender frame-work of scantling, one or two stories high, without basements. Such was Chicago as the writer first saw it. It did not then present a promising subject for history, but a few years later the march of improvement changed all this. The future gleamed brightly before prophetic eyes, and it is not too much to say that the Kinzies, the Beaubiens, Gurdon S. Hubbard, the Clybourns and others, to whom the writer was indebted for information in his researches, had but an imperfect conception of Chicago's destiny. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works
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