"Born in 1776 and coming from a long line of French-Canadian merchants and traders in the New World, Zachariah Cicott left his compfortable life in lower Detroit to seek adventure in the wilds. At the age of sixteen, he set out to become a fur trader with the Indian tribes of Indiana. He learned the trade and the Algonquian languages at Vincennes and began his career by establishing jackknife trading posts in the Wabash River Valley. By 1802, Cicott...