Another issue with Mr. Leicester's claim is that he was just 17 years old in 1854 when he says he built his and Nettleton's cabins and it would be highly unlikely that he ventured to the wilderness by himself to set up a copper mine at that age. Further, the Nettletons had already established a trading post in "Duluth" by 1954 (when Mrs. Nettleton called the future city "a pile of rocks.") and Carlton's trading post was in Fond du Lac (part of the land he owned is now Chambers Grove), quite a distance from the Lester River. That means that if Stuntz's Point was indeed near Carlton's trading post, then Leicester's cabin would be about 20 miles away from the Lester River. So, as Paul suggests, there remains a lot of doubt as to the validity of Leicester's claim.