CHAPTER IV.
HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS OF LACROSSE.
Nothing adds more to the interest manifested in scenery, than its association with remarkable events in the history of the country. Such associations hover over the Plains of Abraham, Chateauguay, Queenstown Heights, and Ridgeway, with a classic reminiscence; sweep away from present view noble cities, and revive the dense forest and the Indian village. Deadly struggles are re-enacted on battle fields where now the clover blooms, and "lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea." Old chateaux, forts, and windmills bring to mind traditional occurences connected with the Indian and French regime; and the pure Indian,—now a nonentity—stalks forth in his degenerate posterity, a subject of curiosity, but a blot on the escutcheon of "paleface" humanity.
The same associations are interwoven with the
