Juliette Augusta Magill Kinzie (1806 -1870) was an American historian, writer and pioneer of the American Midwest.Juliette married John H. Kinzie, son of fur trader John Kinzie in 1830 and moved to Detroit and then Fort Winnebago, a new trading post at the crucial portage between the Fox and Wisconsin rivers. Her husband was an Indian sub-agent to the Ho-Chunk nation (Winnebago people), assigned to this area that connected the Great Lakes/St. Lawrence and Mississippi watersheds.Wau-Bun: The "Early Day" in the North West, recounted her experiences at Fort Winnebago in the early 1830s, as well as those of her mother-in-law and other relatives during the Black Hawk War. The title reflects the local word for daybreak. Kinzie described her journeys back and forth to the early settlement of Chicago, and complex cultural encounters with a diverse frontier society. Unusual for its day, the book also described sympathetically and in detail the lives of Native Americans, who were being displaced by her extended family and other white settlers. The book was such a best-seller that it was reprinted 19 times by the end of the 19th century, and four more times in the 20th century.