Early Exploration and Settlers

Early Exploration and Settlers


  • Baird, Elizabeth Therese. “Reminiscnes of Early Days on Mackinac Island,” Wisconsin Historical Collections 14 (1898):17.


  • Bowers, John O. The Old Bailly Homestead. Gary: the author, 1922.


  • Howe, Frances R. The Story of a French Homestead in the Old Northwest. Columbus: Press of Nitschke Bros., 1907.


  • Janowski, Barbara R. “The Bailly Homestead, Indiana” DAR Magazine 5 (January, 1961):4.


  • Meyer, Alfred H. Circulation and Settlement Patterns of the Calumet Region of Northwest Indiana and Northeast Illinois (The first Stage of Occupance- The Pottowatomie and the Fur Trader- 1830). Albany, 1954. Reprinted from Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 44, no. 3 (September, 1954):245.


  • Morton, E.P. Lake Michigan and the French Explorers. Chicago: Ainsworth & Co., 1914.


  • Nute, Grace Lee. Ceasars of the Wilderness, Medard Chouart, Sieur des Groseilliers, and Pierre Esprit Radisson, 1618-1710. New York: D. Appleton-Century Co., 1943.


  • Werich, J. Lorenzo. Pioneer Hunters of the Kankakee. Logansport: Chronicle Printing Co., 1920.