Dubuque, Iowa and Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin I love the way the name of that Wisconsin town sounds. It just kind of rolls off the tongue. Ever since I saw that name on a map, I’ve enjoyed the name. Must admit, though, I don’t know what it means. I mean it has something to do with ‘prairie’ and the ‘du’ part I think is French for ‘of’. But I don’t know what Chien means. And its not pronounced with a normal ‘ch’ sound, but is more like ‘shane’. So it is French for ‘prairie of (something)’. It isn’t exactly a prairie town, though. At least not like those west of us. It is situated on the eastern banks of the Mississippi just north of where the Wisconsin river empties into The Great River. It seems to
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