CHAPTER IV 

 SETTING STEEL TRAPS 



THE WHITE MAN SETTLING 



THE COUNTRY VACATED BY THE INDIANS 



AND THE FIRST TRAPPER TO SET 



STEEL TRAPS ON THE KANKAKEE 



The history of the region of the Kankakee 

 country under the Aborignies is told. The great 

 /Aiami Republic fell before the Republic of the 

 East, and it became the obvious destiny of the 

 nations to yield to the strongest race. The year 

 "33" marked the advent of the first white fami- 

 lies from the East. The first settlers to arrive 

 were the /Aorgan Brothers, Isaac and William, 

 who came early in the summer from Wayne 

 County' Ohio, and settled on a prairie, after- 

 wards known as Morgan Prairie. It is on the 

 east side of Sandy Hook and a few miles from 



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