Talk:Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable

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Contents 1 To do to improve 2 Kudos! 3 Move from Jean Baptiste Point du Sable? 4 WTF?

[edit] To do to improve

1. Reformat to improve readability
2. Whose daughter did he marry? Do we know her name?
3. Why was he imprisoned in Detroit for spying? Was this a factual allegation or something drummed up against him?
4. What ever happened to him and his family? Where "west" did they go?

[edit] Kudos!

Excellent! So few people know about the shameful way duSable was treated by those who promoted Kinzie as the "first resident of Chicago." Ortolan88

[edit] Move from Jean Baptiste Point du Sable?

I do hate to make trouble, but I think it's actually Pointe du Sable; and his given name should preferably be hyphenated Jean-Baptiste (this at least is the contemporary French use). Unless there's a compelling reason not to, I think we should move this page to Jean-Baptiste Pointe du Sable. QuartierLatin1968 17:11, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

PS: There are 1,700 google hits for "Pointe du Sable" (in quotes) against 782 for "Point du Sable", and that of course includes Wikipedia lookalikes. You have to use quotes because 'point' is of course a common English word in its own right; otherwise you'll get hits along the lines of "I want to make a point about sable hunting".

[edit] WTF?

So what the hell did he even do to get his own article? The article doesn't say. ~ Flameviper ^{Who's a Peach?} 23:59, 5 February 2007 (UTC)