Chapter V: Appendix

=A.= Pointe De Saible.--First settler, 100 years after Marquette
etc.; 133:--Col. de Peyster mentions him in 1778 in his
"Miscellanies," Burns's verses to De Peyster; 134:--De P. also
mentions George Rogers Clark, 135:--De P's verses; 136:--His
foot-notes, naming Chicago; what is known about De Saible;
137:--E. G. Mason's remarks about him and Shaubena; 138--Perish
Grignon (Wis. Hist. Soc. Collection) on the same subject;
139:--Guesses as to the character and fortunes of De Saible;
140:--"_Point de Sable_," no sand.

=B.= Fort Dearborn Records at Washington.--Probable reason why
records are scanty; 143:--Letter from Gen. Dearborn, Secretary
of War; statement compiled from the adjutant-general's records;
memorandum of the destruction; order for rebuilding; successive
commanders; evacuation of 1823; 144:--Re-occupation in 1828;
Major Whistler ordered to Fort Dearborn; final evacuation in
1836; 145:--Demolition of fort in 1856; old paper found, dating
from first fort; familiar names; 146:--One building survived
until the great fire of 1871; the Waubansa stone; 147:--Daniel
Webster speaks from its summit; its later vicissitudes;
148:--Who were the victims of Aug. 15, 1812? Oblivion the usual
fate of martyrs; 149:--Muster and pay-roll of 1810, the last now
existing; 150.

=C.= The Whistler Family.--Gardner's Military Dictionary gives
items of old John Whistler, the Burgoyne soldier; suggestion
that in Heald's place he might have avoided the disaster;
his descendants; Mrs. William Whistler and her daughter,
Gwenthlean Whistler Kinzie; Mrs. General Sheridan; 153:--Mrs.
Whistler's visit to Chicago in 1875, 154:--Her reminiscences;
155:--Whistler descendants in the army; 156.

=D.= The Kinzie Family.--John Kinzie's origin and youth;
157:--The Forsyths, Blanchard's story of the McKenzie girls;
158:--Margaret, mother of some Kinzies and some Halls;
Elizabeth, mother of some Clarks and some Clybourns; 160:--The
bend sinister; John marries Eleanor (Lytle) McKillip and comes
to Chicago; 161:--Extent of his trade; his continued relations
with Detroit; 162;--His daughter-in-law, Juliette (Magill)
Kinzie, writer of Wau-Bun, return after the massacre; 163:--His
losses; pathetic letter to his son, John Harris Kinzie;
164:--His papers burned in 1871; 165:--Inestimable services
as treaty-maker; their partial recognition in treaty of 1838;
165:--His hospitality; 166:--Visit of Gov. Cass; 167:--Winnebago
scare; 168:--End of the old pioneer; Hubbard's narrative of his
closing moments; 169:--Disappearance of the ancient mansion;
170:--Mrs. Nellie Kinzie Gordon; 171:--Heroic death in battle of
John Harris Kinzie, Jr.; 172.

=E.= The Wells and the Heald Families.--William Wells's
captivity among the Indians; Wa-nan-ga-peth, daughter of
Me-che-kan-nah-quah, and her Wells descendants; 173:--William
fighting on the Indians' side; Rebekah (Wells) Heald's story of
her reclamation of her "Indian uncle;" 174:--His parting with
his red father-in-law; later history of Me-che-kan-nah-quah, or
Little Turtle; his presentation to Washington; 175:--Rebekah
meets Nathan Heald at Fort Wayne; 176:--A. H. Edwards's
anecdotes about Captain Wells; 177:--Family feeling of Wells's
descendants; the Heald massacre relics shown; 179:--Masonic
record of Nathan Heald; his letter of Oct. 13, 1813, reporting
the massacre; 180:--Letter on official business, May 18, 1812;
181:--Remarks thereon; 182:--Death of his niece, Mrs. Edwards,
while this book is printing; 183.

=F.= John Lalime.--Portents of the massacre; rivalry between
government and civilian traders; 185:--Factions in the garrison;
traits of John Lalime; 186:--His letters; retort of Main Poc;
Miss Noke-no-qua; 187:--Lalime's attack on John Kinzie; Gurdon
Hubbard's letter about it; Victoire (Mirandeau) Porthier's
story; 189:--Garrison acquits Kinzie but buries Lalime in
sight of the old house; 190:--Discovery of a skeleton in 1891;
191:--Reasons for thinking it that of Lalime; 193:--Facts
learned from Fernando Jones, Judge Blodgett, Hon. John C. Haines
and others; St. James' church-yard; 193:--Letters from Fernando
Jones, Hon. John C. Haines and Doctors Hosmer and Freer; 194-195.

=G.= Reminiscences of A. H. Edwards.--Letter to John Wentworth; story
of a girl who was one of the scalped children; bare spot on her
head; 197:--She the daughter of John Cooper who is named in the
muster-roll; 198:--Married a Detroiter named Farnum; 199.

=H.= Billy Caldwell, the Sauganash.--His traits, good and bad;
201:--He and Shabonee write a letter about General Harrison;
202.

=I.= Farewell War-Dance of the Indians.--Treaty of 1833; Latrobe's
impressions of Chicago; 203:--Ex-Chief-Justice Caton describes
the war dance; 205:--"Farewell Indians!" 206.

=K.= The Bronze Memorial Group.--Where the massacre occurred;
cumulative testimony identifying the spot; letters from Mrs.
Henry W. King, Isaac N. Arnold, A. J. Galloway, Mrs. Mary Clark
Williams, and Robert G. Clarke; 207-210:--The design of the
group, and the designer, Carl Rohl-Smith: lucky chance gives two
savages, "Kicking Bear" and "Short Bull," to serve as models
for the figures; characteristic bearing of the savage models;
bas-reliefs for pedestal, the fort interior, the evacuation,
the fight, death of Captain Wells; dedicatory inscription;
211:--Memorial fit to stand for centuries; 212.

List of Illustrations; 15.

Alphabetical Index; 213.

ILLUSTRATIONS.

Flag of distress; 14.
Chicago in 1813; 26.
Jesuit missionary; 53.
Me-che-kan-nah-quah; 55.
Gen. Anthony Wayne; 56.
Wm. Whistler; 58.
Mrs. Wm. Whistler; 59.
Charles Jouett; 62.
Redcoat of 1812; 65.
Old Fort Dearborn; 67.
Cabin in the Woods; 71.
Kinzie mansion in 1812; 73.
Human Scalp; 75.
Indian Warrior; 77.
Squaw; 86.
Black Partridge Medal; 91.
William Wells; 94.
Chief Robinson; 101.
New fort, River and Kinzie House (Wau-Bun); 111.
Massacre tree; 18th St.; 113.
Second Block-house in its last days; 120.
Block-House Tablet; 125.
Beaubien fiddle and Calumet; 127.
Emigrants with wagon; 129.
Cock crow; 133.
Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La-Salle; 134.
George Rogers Clark, late in life; 135.
Shaubena; 130.
Map of new Harbor; 148.
Drummer; 148.
Interior of Fort (1850), Lake House in distance; 145.
Waubansa stone and Great Fire relics; 147.
Wild onion; 151.
Gwenthlean (Whistler) Kinzie; 153.
James Kinzie (autograph); 160.
Samuel Miller (autograph); 161.
Juliette Kinzie; 163.
John Harris Kinzie in 1827; 164.
John Kinzie (autograph); 165.
John Harris Kinzie late in life; 166.
Robert Allen Kinzie, 167.
Kinzie Mansion as given in Wau-Bun; 168.
Mrs. Nellie (Kinzie) Gordon; 171.
John Harris Kinzie Jr.; 172.
Indian Mother and pappoose; 173.
Darius Heald with massacre relics; 179.
Massacre tree and Pullman house; 184.
Cyclone; 185.
Skeleton; 186.
The late Calumet Club-House; 196.
Sauganash Hotel; 200.
Me-tee-a, a signer of the treaty of 1821; 203.
Indian War-dance, August 18, 1885; 204.
Chi-ca-gou; 213.

The Chicago Massacre of 1812

IN TWO PARTS AND AN APPENDIX.