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Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard (1802 – 1886) was an American fur trader, insurance underwriter and land speculator. Hubbard first arrived in Chicago on October 1, 1818 as a voyageur. He went on to build Chicago's first stockyard and help foment a land boom for Chicago in the East.The text of the Autobiography is taken from the manuscript of the original Diary, as it appeared in the memorial volume compiled by Mr. Henry E. Hamilton in 1888 for circulation only among the immediate friends of Mr. Hubbard's family. This memorial volume has long been considered of value to book collectors, and especially to those interested in the history of the early Northwest. PROBABLY no one life presented so many of the phases of Chicago's life-drama as did that of Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard. Leaving his adopted home in the Canadian wilderness at the age of sixteen, to descend with the voyageurs of the American Fur Company through the waters traversed only a trifle over a century before by the explorers La Salle and Tonty, intimate as a brother with the Indians, and yet able to defend the pioneers from any treachery, possessed of the strength and skill of the former, with the diplomacy and aplomb of the latter, swift of foot, huge of stature, Hubbard seems as he looms up in history like the survivor of some former race, —a giant whose youthful adventures might have been passed on by tradition, as of a being more than human. Something he undoubtedly imbibed from the Indians, which, added to his own firm fiber, made him the hero that he was in the estimation of his contemporaries, and rendered him, in a very true sense, a representative American. That he was able to adapt himself to civilization, and to infuse into others something of the fire which burned within him, is in large part, we believe, the secret of much of Chicago's extraordinary advance. Having passed the period of his apprenticeship as a fur-trader while still a mere boy, Gurdon Hubbard was formally appointed to conduct a trading station on the Iroquois River in Illinois, for that same company, and later assumed the superintendence of all their posts on the Iroquois and Kankakee rivers and their tributaries, with headquarters at Danville. This, of course, involved annual trips to Mackinaw, the headquarters of John Jacob Astor and his colleagues, the descent of Lake Michigan in open Mackinaw boats, a short stop at Chicago, and then the rivers and prairies of Illinois, with few but Indians for friends at the outset. In 1827 Mr. Hubbard was admitted to a share in the profits of the American Fur Company, and in 1828 bought out their entire interests in Illinois.ContentsI.Childhood.— Engagement With American Fur Co.— Mackinaw II.First Year In The Indian Country.—Marquette Cross.— Chicago.— Fort Dearborn III.Mud Lake.— Isle La Cache.— Starved Rock.— Fort Clark.— Encounter With An Indian.— St. Louis IV.Shaub-e-nee.— Wa-ba And Che-mo-co-mon-Ess.— Tippecanoe Battle Ground.— The Feast On The Dead V.Fishing In Muskegon Lake.— A Month In Solitude.— Lost In A Snow Storm. —Death Of Dufrain VI.Kalamazoo River.— Cosa.— An Accident— A Visit.— Wolf Stories.— Crooked Creek VII.Attacked By An Indian.— Alexis St. Martin.— Sleeping Bear VIII.Pa-pa-ma-ta-be. St. Joseph To The Kankakee.— " Hubbard's Trail. " Under The Ice. Peoria And St. Louis IX.1824.— Placed In Charge Of The Illinois River Trading Posts X.Trouble With Yellow Head.— Danville. —"winnebago Scare."—In The Ohio River.— Ka-ne-kuck This book originally published in 1911 has been reformatted for the Kindle and may contain an occasional defect from the original publication or from the reformatting.
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- Title: The Autobiography of Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard: Pa-pa-ma-ta-be, "The Swift Walker" (1911)
- Author : Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard, CAROLINE M. MCILVAINE
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