Juliette Kinzie

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Frontier Storyteller

Kathe Crowley Conn

A young readers’ biography of a woman writer who shared a unique glimpse into life in early territorial Wisconsin.

136 pages, 7 x 9, 69 b&w photos, 2 maps
Paperback: $12.95 | ISBN: 978-0-87020-701-3
Ebook: $9.99 | ISBN: 978-0-87020-702-0
Publication Date: 2/20/2015

Reading Level: Ages 10–14, Grades 5–8

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Description

In 1830, a young woman named Juliette Magill Kinzie moved from her elegant home in Connecticut to a rustic log cabin in what would later be called Wisconsin. Juliette lived there with her husband, John, who worked as an Indian agent at Fort Winnebago, one of Wisconsin’s earliest colonial settlements. While living at the fort, Juliette came to know the Native communities that lived there, as well as the European and American people who were moving in. She later wrote a book about her experiences, Wau-Bun: The “Early Day” in the Northwest, offering an important first-person account of life in territorial Wisconsin. Juliette Kinzie: Frontier Storyteller turns the lens on the writer herself, detailing her life as she detailed the lives of those she encountered in the 1830s and 1840s.

This biography for young readers details war, hunger, and the rapidly changing times Juliette witnessed during this period of American expansion in the Midwest. It follows the pioneering woman through her own changes from socialite to pioneer to writer and even to the work of her granddaughter, Juliette Gordon Low, who founded the Girl Scouts of America in 1912.

Author Bio

Kathe Crowley Conn is the former president and executive director of the Aldo Leopold Nature Center in Madison, Wisconsin. She founded Nature Net, an environmental learning network, to foster a love of the land and the thrill of discovery in children throughout Wisconsin. She resides in rural Rock County with her family.