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No attempt has been made to write history—only an effort to
collect the materials and place them in preservation, to be used
by some one who shall write that history at some future day.
The pioneers, from whom the history must be gathered, are fast
passing away; and if the brief sketches here prepared will preserve their memory and the events in which they figured, until
they shall be placed in some more enduring form, the object of
the writer will have been fully attained.
The difficulty which has been experienced in obtaining definite information respecting those early settlers, leads the writer
to believe that slight inaccuracies may have occurred, and some
omissions made, but these were unavoidable.
The imperfect sources from which the names, residences, and
occupation of the inhabitants of the county have been obliged
to be gathered, have rendered slight omissions probable. Such
imperfections necessarily occur in the preparation of such a work
for the first time. SKETCHES OF KASKASKIA.
INDIANS.
For many years before Kaskaskia was known to the
white man, it was an Indian village, around which the
crude natives hunted and fished, boiled their corn and
venison, smoked the calumet, and ...
A Directory, Business Mirror, and Historical Sketches of Randolph County
