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Nathan Myrick (July 7, 1822 in Westport, New York – June 4, 1903 in St. Paul, Minnesota) was a fur trader who founded La Crosse, Wisconsin in 1841. Myrick was in the fur trade in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin before traveling north to establish a fur trading post in what is now La Crosse. In 1849, he moved to St. Paul, Minnesota to establish more fur trading posts. He was a brother of Andrew Myrick, who was killed on the first day at the Attack at the Lower Sioux Agency.

References

1. "Downtown Mainstreet Inc".
2. "Brief History of La Crosse County". Archived from the original on 2007-10-13.
3. Benjamin F. Bryant (1907). Memoirs of La Crosse County. Western Historical Association.

Sources

• "Nathan Myrick Founder of City Is Dead". La Crosse Chronicle. La Crosse, Wisconsin. June 4, 1903. Courtesy of the La Crosse Public Library Archives.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
• "Nathan Myrick". Wisconsin Historical Dictionary. 3 August 2012.

External links

• Articles about Nathan Myrick, Wisconsin State Historical Society
• The Lumbering Industry of La Crosse, Wisconsin 1841–1905, Selma Sather Casberg, University of Wisconsin–La Crosse, La Crosse, Wisconsin, 1953
• Nathan Myrick, 1822 - 1903

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