mazzuchelli's

Updated: May 20, 2025

It was always a joyful announcement when, looking out over the Portage road, somebody called out, "The Cut-Nose is coming!" In time, however, we learned to call her by her baptismal name of Elizabeth, for she, too, was one of Mr. Mazzuchelli's converts. She came one day, accompanied by a half-grown boy, carrying a young fawn she had brought me as a present.

Juliette Augusta Magill Kinzie - Wau-bun: The Early Day in the Northwest