LA CROSSE COUNTY HISTORICAL SKETCHES

     These trails were the only routes to the interior and in addition to
these mentioned there were undoubtedly connecting trails, since there
were Indian villages near Bangor, Neshonec and the headwaters of the
Bad Ax River.3 One of the most definite trails went eastward, follow-
ing the North bank of the LaCrosse River, then to the Lemonweir Riv-


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er and to Portage where it connected with a trail to Oshkosh and the
Fox River valley. The U. S. Survey of 1847 shows a well marked trail
from present Onalaska north to about the situation of Lytles on the
Black River and then north from there, probably to the region around
Trempealeau. From Lytles there was an Indian trail along the Black
River, north to the pineries.4
    3. Bryant. Memoirs of La Crosse County. v. 2, p. 25.
    4. Hist. La Crosse County (1881), pp. 337, 367, 373.
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