Excerpt from Our Indian Predecessors, the First Evanstonians: A Paper Read Before the Society by Frank R. Grover, November 2nd, 1901 Avolume could easily be written describing the exploits of the later but still early white and Indian visitors to these shores. The western shore of the lake was the great highway between the Chicago port age and Green Bay and Mackinac. We need not depend upon imagination to paint the picture of the white voy agsur and his Indian companion ply ing the paddle with steady stroke, keeping time to the notes of his boat song, while their birch bark canoes skimmed the surface of the lake. For the Jesuit Relations of those early days will supply the facts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.