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Book

The allure of Michigan's past

Call Numbers

  • 977.4 M417.9 (CEN, EAS, OSH)
  • H 977.4 M417.9 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Allegan Forest, Mich. : Priscilla Press, 2008.

Physical Description

286 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Contents

  • Preface
  • Indian casinos: an ancient Michigan tradition
  • The ups and downs of an Indian mound
  • Old Crow cheats the hangman
  • The struggles and triumphs of chief andrew Blackbird
  • Wolverines in Michigan
  • From Michigan voyageur to Minnesota statesman
  • Early Detroit no haven for runaway slaves
  • Go West, young man, to the Copper Country
  • Happy New Year from your carrier boy
  • The contumely of captains
  • How Mary spelled H-U-S-B-A-N-D
  • General Israel Canton Smith
  • bonjour sault Ste. Marie, Adieu Detroit
  • Wolverine doctors in the Gilded Age
  • When Kalamazoo enjoyed three weeks of bliss
  • "Pardon me?" said Governor Groswell
  • The romance of old cookbooks
  • Kalamazoo helped harness the wind and harrow the earth
  • Coffin crackers and body snatchers
  • Nimrods of the North
  • Stanley Ketchel, the Michigan assassin
  • Cornflakes, a tale of two brothers
  • Two Bens and two cities
  • Kalamazoo's clean streets crusade
  • Pearl digggers and mussel men
  • Carnegie heroes
  • The saga of the Christmas Tree Ship
  • Reading, writing and Red Nose
  • Four women and a trailer
  • "We must five our boys air!"
  • The mighty milkweed hunt
  • sources
  • Index.

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