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Paperback A History of the Chicago Portage: The Crossroads That Made Chicago and Helped Make America Book

ISBN: 0810143909

ISBN13: 9780810143906

A History of the Chicago Portage: The Crossroads That Made Chicago and Helped Make America

Seven muddy miles transformed a region and a nation

This fascinating account explores the significance of the Chicago Portage, one of the most important--and neglected--sites in early US history. A seven-mile-long strip of marsh connecting the Chicago and Des Plaines Rivers, the portage was inhabited by the earliest indigenous people in the Midwest and served as a major trade route for Native American tribes. A link between the Mississippi...

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