Inscription of Juliette A. M. Kinzie to Abraham Lincoln in Wau-Bun, The “Early Day” in the Northwest, [1857]1
Hon: Abraham Lincoln–With the respectful compliments of the Authoress–
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WAU - BAN,3
THE
“EARLY DAY”
IN
THE NORTHWEST.4
^Juliette Augusta (Magill) Kinzie^
BY “MRS. JOHN H. KINZIE,”
OF CHICAGO
SECOND EDITION, WITH ILLUSTRATIONS.
CHICAGO:
D. B. COOKE & CO., PUBLISHERS.
THE
“EARLY DAY”
IN
THE NORTHWEST.4
^Juliette Augusta (Magill) Kinzie^
BY “MRS. JOHN H. KINZIE,”
OF CHICAGO
SECOND EDITION, WITH ILLUSTRATIONS.
CHICAGO:
D. B. COOKE & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1857.
1Juliette A. M. Kinzie wrote and signed this author’s inscription. The editors have
inferred the date from the publication date of the volume inscribed.
3Wau-ban is a Ho-Chunk word for dawn or early day.
Ann Durkin Keating, The World of Juliette Kinzie: Chicago Before the Fire (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2019), vii.
4Juliette A. M. Kinzie shares her personal experiences, and those of her family, in
Chicago before it became a large metropolitan city. In the Preface, dated 1855, she
wrote, “Some who read the following sketches may be inclined to believe that a residence
among our native brethren and an attachment growing out of our peculiar relation to
them, have exaggerated our sympathies, and our sense of the wrongs they have received
at the hands of the whites. This is not the place to discuss that point. There is
a tribunal at which man shall be judged for that which he has meted out to his fellow-man.”
Juliette A. M. Kinzie, Wau-Bun, The Early Day in the Northwest (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1873), vii.
Handwritten Document, 3 page(s), Lincoln Collection, Rare Books Collection, Library of Congress (Washington, DC)