Pierre Grimard\'s dream was to leave his boyhood home in France and voyage to America.
Then in the winter of 1778 this tiny, primitive village beca.
He had a beautiful, devoted wife, a home full of children, and a thriving business in the French trading outpost at Vincennes on the Wabash River.
Ten years later it seemed that Pierre had fulfilled every one of his dreams.
He longed to begin a new life, business, and family in the French settlements of the faraway frontier in the Illinois country.
Pierre Grimard\'s dream was to leave his boyhood home in France and voyage to America