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Excerpt from Transactions of the Illinois State Historical Society for the Year 1924: Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the Society, Springfield, Illinois, May 22 23, 1924 At the age of Sixteen, he induced his parents to allow him to engage himself to the American Fur Company at Mackinac for a term of five years, and it was in the capacity of a cadet of this Company in an Illinois expedition that he first saw Fort Dearborn, October 1, 1818. In his autobiography, he speaks of his first impression when the canoes entered the Chicago River, as follows. 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.