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The Spring 2019 Trivia Question

In the image above can be seen the Wooded Island, spread out below the balloon. Just out the frame to the left (south) would have been a small log cabin, erected by future U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt as a museum and memorial to honor what two American frontiersmen?

The winner of the Winter 2018 Trivia Question is J.V. from Wisconsin, who knew the answer is Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett. As a prize, we’re sending a greeting card featuring the image of the balloon ride over the fairgrounds. You can order your own greeting cards of this and other Columbian Exposition images at our worldsfairchicago1893 store. All proceeds help us pay the bills for hosting this website!

About Hunter’s Cabin

Sponsored by Theodore Roosevelt’s Boone and Crockett Foundation and designed by prolific architect Charles Atwood, the Hunter’s Cabin was a replica of a typical pioneer house from 1850s and contained a display of relics of Davy Crockett, along with hunting gear, skins of wild animals, and furniture. The structure stood on a small island just south of the Wooded Island. “No matter how long one may have wandered through the vastness of the far West, and no matter how many cabin homes one has seen in such wanderings,” wrote the Chicago Tribune (Nov. 27, 1892, p. 33.) “this cabin on the island at Jackson Park will stop the traveler to the World’s Columbian Exposition.”

The Hunter’s Log Cabin stood on a small island just south of the Wooded Island. [Image from The Dream City. A Portfolio of Photographic Views of the World’s Columbian Exposition. N. D. Thompson, 1893.]