Grand Door to the Wabash: A Bibliographical Guide to the History, Culture, Natural Resources, and Economy of the Lower Wabash River Basin and Its Lower Tributaries

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" A piankeshaw chief of great influence among his nation, known as the'Big Gate', or 'Big Door', and called by the indians 'The Grand Door to the Wabash' (controlled, as he did, the lower portion-the 'gate' or 'door'-of the river),...." (Butterfield, C.W. History of George Rogers Clark's Conquest of the Illinois and Wabash Towns..., 1904, pp. 130-131)

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