Excerpt from The Carver Centenary: An Account of the Celebration Carver pursued the usual route to Green Bay, ascended the Fox River. Made the Portage to the Wisconsin and descending that stream, entered the Mississippi on October 15. The traders who were with him left him at Prairie da Chien, Opposite to which village at Yellow River, they took up their quarters. Carver here bought a canoe, and with two servants, one a French Canadian. 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.