[K12ltsp-list] Ntial institution. Established in the midst of an undeveloped society

[Zehrer Shifferd]

 in Wisconsin. About the middle of the century, Augustin de Langlade
had made Green Bay his trading post. After Pontiac's war,[145] Charles
de Langlade[146] made the place his permanent residence, and a little
settlement grew up. At Prairie du Chien French traders annually met the
Indians, and at this time
there may have been a stockaded trading post
there, but it was not a permanent settlement until the close of the
Revolutionary war. Chequamegon bay was deserted[147] at the outbreak of
the French
war. There may have been a regular trading post at
Milwaukee in this period, but the first trader
recorded is not until 1762.[148] Doubtless wintering posts existed at
other points in Wisconsin. The characteristic feature of
French occupancy of the Northwest was the trading post, and

in illustration of it, and of the centralized administration of the
French, the following account of De

Repentigny's fort at Sault Ste. Marie (Michigan) is given in the words
of Governor La Jonquiere to the minister for the colonies in 1751:[149]
"He arrived too late last year at the Sault Ste. Marie to fortify
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