PIONEER KUNTKRS OF THE KANKAKEE 

 go, brought to our place the first air pillows that 

 1 ever sav/. It was in a hunting boat on the 

 Kankakee marshes and near our place that 1 

 first met one of Indiana's most famous writers, 

 General Lew Wallace. He was with a party of 

 Indianapolis hunters and was stopping at the 

 Indianapolis. Terre Haute and Rockville club 

 houses at Baum's Bridge, I might mention 

 scores of Indiana hunters who have at some 

 time in the years past hunted on the Kankakee. 

 Getting logs out of the swamp was very un- 

 certain owing to various conditions of the 

 swamps. Sometimes the swamp would freeze 

 up early in the winter with high water and be- 

 fore it froze solid the water would leave the ice 

 making it shelly and when the ice was in this 

 condition it was dangerous getting around v/ith 

 a team. Under these conditions logging was 



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no good that winter. Finally Father sold the 

 saw mill to some parties in Valparaiso and they 

 moved it to the big v/oods near Chesterlcn, In- 

 diana. About 25 years ago Father sold the 



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