Literary Works
While in Fort Winnebago she heard stories of the Battle of Fort Dearborn at Chicago, which she would later write about in Narrative of the Massacre at Chicago, August 15, 1812, and of Some Preceding Events, it was published in 1844. The account was published anonymously, however Kinze acknowledged authorship soon after publication.
Her second book Wau-Bun: The "Early Day" in the North West, recounts her experiences of life at Fort Winnebago, Wisconsin, in the early 1830s. She describes her journeys back and forth to the early settlement of Chicago, her complex cultural encounters with a diverse frontier society. The book also describes in detail the lives of Native Americans at the time. It was published in by Derby and Jackson in 1856, and was well received.
In 1869 her novel Walter Ogilby was published. And her Narrative... was reworked and released as Mark Logan, the Bourgeois in 1871 following her death.
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