La Crosse
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La Crosse
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Print Collector
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La Crosse, and Scenery Above', 1874. Steamboat landing on the River Mississippi at the city of La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA, and the scenery further upstream. '...the town of La Crosse, built upon the prairie where all the Indian tribes...used to have their great ball-playing, that game which the French travellers called "la crosse", and which has given its name to this stirring city, bustling with manufactures...Above La Crosse, the valley of the Mississippi widens considerably...The river is perfectly studded with islands...covered with a dense growth of shrub-oak, from which occasional cotton-woods soar up to considerable height'. From "Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In, A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes...with Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Eminent American . Artists" Vol. II, edited by William Cullen Bryant. [D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1874]. Artist John J. Harley. (Photo by The Print Collector/Heritage Images via Getty Images)
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