History of Nauvoo, Illinois

This article details some of the history of Nauvoo, Illinois. A large village of Sauk and Meskwaki lived along the Mississippi near what is Nauvoo, established in the late 1700s; this village has as many as 1,000 lodges. In 1823 or 1824 Captain James White purchased the village from Quashquame, a Sauk leader. White gave Quashquame “a little sku-ti-apo [liquor] and two...
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