About the Author

  I live in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. I cross the Fox River multiple times a day. It is easy to forget this is the river Jolliet took as he discovered the Mississippi. It is also easy to forget what later happened to the Fox tribe. To its credit, the city has a description of all the Wisconsin tribes and of the Fox War on a pedestrian trail along Highway 41 as it crosses the Fox at Lake Butte des Morts. The history is there for people who will take a few minutes to look.