The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 586
ish. It is a game of great an-tiquity, I warrant you, and bears the impress of many a historicassociation that some of your own favourite recreationswill never boast. It is certain that the game was firstoriginated in the backwoods, by the Red Man, and that in alllikelihood it became popularised by… … LA CROSSE than a century, so that I must ask you to treat it with acertain degree of respect. It is more than a century, indeed,since a well-devised stratagem of the wily Eedskins almostsucceeded in surprising the English garrison at Fort Detroitunder the shadow of an exhibition game at La Crosse.…
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