Lahontan visited Wisconsin in 1688, traveling from Mackinac to the Sauk, Potawatomi, and Menominee villages near Green Bay, across the Fox-Wisconsin waterway and on to the Mississippi. His book's clear, straight-forward depictions give it unique value, outweighing its blatant fabrication of a fictional land northwest of the Mississippi.

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[Source: Dictionary of Canadian Biography (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1969)Dictionary of Canadian Biography 1701-1740. v2. ed. David Hayne. University of Toronto Press, Canada: 1969; pages 439-444]