Only a week or two after our arrival in the woods he bought us a little Indian pony for thirteen dollars from a store-keeper in Kingston who had obtained him from a Winnebago or menominee Indian in trade for goods.
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John Muir
Next he stopped at the mouth of the menominee River, now the northeast boundary between Wisconsin and Michigan, where the menominee tribe lived.
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Reuben Gold Thwaites
Robert Grignon, a French fur trader at Grand Butte des Morts, desiring to be on good terms with his menominee neighbors, proposed "Oshkosh."
"Stories of the Badger State"
Reuben Gold Thwaites