Excerpt from Three Wisconsin Cushings: A Sketch of the Lives of Howard Alonzo H. And William B. Cushing, Children of a Pioneer Family of Waukesha County When this uprising was suppressed, as in less than a year it was, an exodus of the dissatisfied classes began and continued as people could get ready for their passage over the Hudson and into the wilderness of what was then the Far West, reaching by way of the Mohawk Valley even to Lake Erie itself, and up__ the eastern shore of Lake Ontario to the St. Lawrence. Washington Irving was evidently familiar with the appear ance of such migrations from early boyhood, and gives a lively picture in his Knickerbocker's Hist ory of New York (though somewhat distorted for purposes of burlesque entertainment), of the way in which the Yankees moved westward, ac companied by their families, and With all their belongings packed away in covered wagons drawn by jaded horses or toiling oxen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.