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FORT WILKINS
FOLLOWING THE TREATY BETWEEN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
AND THE CHIPPEWA INDIANS IN EARLY 1843 THE KEWEENAW PENINSULA
WAS OPENED TO SETTLEMENT AND LOCATION FOR MINING RIGHTS.
AN IMMEDIATE RUSH OF PROSPECTORS AND ADVENTURERS OF ALL
TYPES FOLLOWED. TO MAINTAIN ORDER FORT WILKINS WAS BUILT
IN 1844 AND OCCUPIED BY TWO COMPANIES OF THE FIFTH U.S. IN-
FANTRY UNDER CAPTAIN CLERY.
BUT THOSE EARLY PIONEERS WERE A HARDY LOT AND
SETTLED THIER OWN QUARRELS WITH FISTS AND CLUBS.
THE SOLDIERS WERE NOT CALLED ON. THE FORT WAS DE-
SERTED IN 1855, WAS AGAIN OCCUPIED BY FEDERAL
TROOPS AFTER THE CIVIL WAR AND FINALLY ABANDONED
IN 1870. FORT WILKINS BECAME A STATE PARK IN 1923.
FANNY HOOE
CREEK
D-1418
Back:
2/26
11:30am.
were doing the plains of Kawas
at this point ouw a
silove streamlined zeypher.
It's as all pull war fram.
we have a little
bedrooms that most
adjoining
of the
cars are made up of. We're all
back in the observation
beautiful OST
Traiest
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lounge now watching the
by. It's
strip was Kauss
oil fields
some
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city this am. - nove alday
till Tuclemcari . n. They
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED THE L. L. COOK CO..
today
+ There Jucion tomorrow. Had
a good pleege last night.
nud love - Lois
UKEE
EL
C. &
BAUSO,,
TRAD
MAR 27
M.
1942 .C
R. P.O.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
INDUSTRY AGRICULTURE
FOR DEFENSE
Mas. J. H. Dickeson
1473 Beace AoE.
Wooster. Ohio
