“In the fall of 1814 the late Col. Dickson was stopped here [Lake Winnebago] by the ice and compelled to remain during the Winter. * * * He cleared the land, now cultivated by the Indians.”—Journal of Mrs. James D. Doty, in _Wis. Hist. Colls._ x, p. 114. Footnote 7: _Wis. Hist. Colls._, x, p. 75. Footnote 8: _Travels in North America_, p. 37. Footnote 9: _Ibid._, p. 521. Footnote 10: See Coues, _Pike’s Expeditions_ (N. Y., 1895), pp. 294–303; also brief mention in the Reedsburg _Free Press_, July 23, 1874. Footnote 11: G. W. Featherstonhaugh, _Canoe Voyage up the Minnay Sotor_, p. 350. Footnote 12: In Chas. W. Burkett, _History of Ohio Agriculture_, (Concord, 1900), the point is made that the Indians unconsciously practiced a careful system of selection by taking the best and earliest corn each year for seed. This seems reasonable, but Professor Burkett does not give his authority for the statement. Footnote 13: Worden, _United States_, ii, p. 539. Footnote 14: Coues, _Pike’s Expeditions_, p. 532. Footnote 15: Thwaites, _Jesuit Relations_ (Cleveland, 1896–1901), liv, p. 223. Footnote 16: _Wis. Hist. Colls._, xii, p. 139. Footnote 17: Many incidental references to the sorry plight of the Wisconsin Indians in times when game was scarce may be found in the _Wis. Hist. Colls._, especially in the Grignon and Dickson papers, xi, pp. 271–315. Footnote 18: _Jesuit Relations_, liv, pp. 205, 207. Footnote 19: _Wis. Hist. Colls._, xii, pp. 134, 135. Footnote 20: Smith, _Wisconsin_, iii, pp. 189–195. Footnote 21: Lapham, _Wisconsin_, p. 116. Although Lapham was a scientist he does not venture to give the botanical name of this plant, which was evidently a puzzle to him. Footnote 22: _Autobiography of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak, or Black Hawk_ (St. Louis, 1882), pp. 57, 58. Footnote 23: _Wis. Hist. Colls._, x, p. 220. Footnote 24: Tanner, _View of the Valley of the Mississippi or the Emigrant’s and Traveller’s Guide to the West_ (Philadelphia, 1834). Footnote 25: In a letter to Brehm, Governor Sinclair speaks of sending a sloop through the lake region in the fall of 1779 to collect all the grain and other provisions available, to be used in the campaign against St. Louis the following spring. In others of the Haldimand papers are direct statements to the effect that the provisions for the St. Louis expedition were to be gathered principally from the Indians along Wisconsin River, where corn was said to be abundant, and as a matter of fact this plan appears to have been carried out.—_Wis. Hist. Colls._, xi, pp. 141–184. Footnote 26: Gibbs, _Memoirs of the Administrations of Washington and Adams_ (New York, 1846), i, p. 76. Footnote 27: Schoolcraft, _Personal Memoirs_ (Philadelphia, 1851), p. 196. Footnote 28: Keating, _History of Long’s Expedition_ (Philadelphia, 1824), i, pp. 325, 326. Footnote 29: