In 1842 he came to Menomonie Mills, Wisconsin, and engaged in lumbering until 1846.
A Menomonie from the region of Green Bay had stirred them up, not against the missionaries, but against the general government.
Next year his official duties called him to the Menomonie and Chippewa valleys.
This Indian said that he had obtained this knowledge from a Menomonie chief.
They did not find them, till their return, when they discovered a Menomonie encampment on the upper part of the Prairie.
