Chapter VII: Contemporaneous Reports.--Progress of

the press since 1812; Niles' Weekly Register our main authority;
113:--First published statement of the massacre; the schooner
Queen Charlotte; 114:--Absurd story regarding Mrs. Helm;
115:--Still more absurd story, signed Walter Jordan; 116:--Possible
leaven of truth; 117:--Nine survivors reported arrived at
Plattsburgh from Quebec; 118:--Familiar names; harrowing tales
they told; 119:--Pitiable fate of Mrs. Neads and her child, Kinzie
family return to Chicago, where the bones of the massacre victims
are buried by the soldiers sent to build the new fort; 120:--Letter
from Fernando Jones; 121:--Solution of the Indian problem
treated; 122:--Present condition of the Pottowatomies; 123:--Wonderful
progress in five generations; speculations concerning
the renewed interest in these old tales; 124:--Sculptured mementoes
of the past slowly being provided by public-spirited citizens;
Lambert Tree, Martin Ryerson and EH Bates; George M. Pullman's
splendid bronze group of the massacre; 126:--Eugene Hall's
verses at the unveiling of the Block-house Tablet in 1881.