The Life of Henry Dodge, from 1782 to 1833 : With Portrait by George Catlin, and Maps of the Battles of the Pecatonica and Wisconsin Heights in the Black Hawk War (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Life of Henry Dodge, From 1782 to 1833: With Portrait by George Catlin, and Maps of the Battles of the Pecatonica and Wisconsin Heights in the Black Hawk War

He who has mastered the biographies of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, and Abraham Lincoln, knows the chief parts of American history. When Thomas Carlyle had completed his Elucidation of Oliver Cromwell he wrote to Ralph Waldo Emerson: I wish you would take an America hero and give us a history of him.

The settlement and growth of the territory northwest of the Ohio river. Is one of the marvels of American history; it cannot be better told than in the lives of its pioneers. Promi nent among them, a heroic man, was Henry Dodge. Born in that territory at Post St. Vincents (vincennes), October 12th.

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