The narrator of the passage (having come to Wisconsin from Michigan in 1837) arrived at Turtle after two weeks of riding.

The evidence

• “Now the city of South Chicago is there. After riding in this way two weeks we arrived at Turtle, October 23, 1837. I remember of entering a piece of ten-mile woods at sundown.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/19-pioneer-women.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 497 / book p. 461

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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