Marriage and Family
By 1800, when he was 20, Tanner had taken an Indian wife, the niece of Michigan fur trader, Madeleine LaFramboise, and become a renowned hunter and warrior. He spoke only the Saulteaux language and was thoroughly acculturated. In 1801 he met a fur trader named Daniel Harmon, who wrote about Tanner in his diary.
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