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      • Dear Santa 1909
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      • Mary Morehosue-Thatcher: A Kankakee River fur trappers daughter
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Books and Papers

The Hoosier Waltonian February 2019

An Anthropological Report on the Indians of the Kankakee River

Kankakee Marsh Historic Place Names by Philip E. Vierling

Kankakee River Chronology of Events 

The Red Mans Rebuke by Simon Pokagon

Pioneer Hunters of the Kankakee by J Lorenzo Werich

Tales of an Old Border Town and Along the Kankakee by Burt E. Burroughs

The St. Joseph-Kankakee Portage

Potawatomi History

Pokagon History

Skid Puffer

Wether Book diary of Josiah Granger 1852

Northwestern Indiana from 1800 – 1900

Max Ahlgrim notebook

An Archer on the Kankakee by J. Maurice Thompson

The Passion of Lew Wallace by John Swansburg

Lew Wallace an Autobiography

The Kankakee Marsh of Northern Indiana

Department of Army Navigability of Kankakee River

1916 Congressional Report of Kankakee River planned channelization

The Kankakee River Yesterday and Today

Report Upon the Improvement of the Kankakee River-1883

Counties of Porter and Lake, Indiana 1882

Kouts Centennial Book

The Red Man’s Rebuke by Simon Pokagon

  

 

 

 

Contact Info

22 W. 1050 S
Kouts, IN 46347

Phone: 219-766-2302,

Email: president@kankakeevalleyhistoricalsociety.org

Website: http://www.kankakeevalleyhistoricalsociety.org/

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