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Juliette Kinzie: Frontier Storyteller
Contributor(s): Crowley Conn, Kathe (Author)
ISBN: 0870207016     ISBN-13: 9780870207013
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society Press
OUR PRICE:   $11.66  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: February 2015
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BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography - Women
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography - Cultural, Ethnic & Regional
Dewey: B
LCCN: 2014038701
Lexile Measure: 840
Series: Badger Biographies
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 6.9" W x 8.9" (0.60 lbs) 123 pages
 
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In 1830, a young woman named Juliette Magill Kinzie moved from her fancy home in Connecticut to a rustic log cabin in what would later be called Wisconsin. Juliette lived there with her husband, John, who worked as an Indian agent at Fort Winnebago, one of Wisconsin's earliest settlements. While living at the fort, Juliette came to know the Indian communities that called the land home, as well as the non-Indian settlers who were moving in. She later wrote a best-selling book about her experiences, Wau-Bun: The 'Early Day' in the Northwest, an important first-person account of life on the frontier.

This new biography in the Badger Biographies Series turns the lens on the writer herself, detailing her life as she detailed the lives of those she encountered in the 1830s and 1840s. Juliette Kinzie: Frontier Storyteller details war, hunger, and the rapidly changing times Juliette witnessed on the Midwestern frontier, following the pioneering woman through her own changes from socialite to pioneer to famous writer and even to the work of her granddaughter, Juliette Gordon Low, who founded the Girl Scouts of the USA in 1912.