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Book

Historic Michigan, land of the Great lakes; its life, resources, industries, people, politics, government, wars, institutions, achievements, the press, schools and churches, legendary and prehistoric lore, edited by George N. Fuller ...

Call Number

  • H 977.4 F9654 [multiple volumes] (CEN)

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Publication Information

[Dayton, O.] National historical Association [1924]

Physical Description

3 v. plates, ports. 26 cm.

Notes

Vols. 1-2 paged continuously.

Vols. 1-2 "dedicated to the Michigan pioneer and historical society in commemoration of its fiftieth anniversary."

"Volume [3] containing an account of Kalamazoo County, edited by Charles A. Weissert.

"The papers contained in these volumes have been selected almost entirely from the publications of the Michigan pioneer and historical society and the Michigan historical commission."--Pref.

"Notes and additional readings": vol. I, xxvi p. at end; vol. II, x p. at end. "Personal sketches": vol. III, p. [267]-658.

Contents

  • Vol. I: Geographic setting
  • Prehistoric man in Michigan
  • Michigan Indians of the Prehistoric Period
  • Indian customs, legends and folk lore
  • French exploration and settlement
  • Jesuit missions and missionaries
  • Cadillac
  • The fur trade
  • Pontiac's conspiracy
  • International boundary
  • The old northwest
  • Indian war and the Treaty of Greenville
  • Early Detroit
  • Creation of Michigan Territory
  • Michigan in the War of 1812
  • Michigan Territory, 1805-1837
  • Representative early Detroiters
  • Early maps
  • Beginning of steam navigation on the Great Lakes
  • Indian Treaty of Saginaw
  • Early roads
  • Pioneer life
  • Detroit, 1805-1837
  • The "Boy Governor" of Michgan
  • Michigan-Ohio boundary
  • Michigan's first United States senators
  • Educational beginnings
  • Internal improvements and the five million dollar loan
  • Wild cat banking
  • The state capitol
  • The Beaver Island Mormons
  • The upper peninsula of Michigan
  • History in county names
  • The Mexican War
  • Political parties before the Civil War
  • The Underground Railroad in Michigan
  • The Civil War.
  • Vol. lll: Kalamazoo County: Introductory review
  • The early French explorations and regime
  • Fort St. Joseph and missions in New France
  • Michigan and the Black Hawk War
  • Indian trails, mounds, earthworks, villages and cemeteries in Kalamazoo County / Edward J. Stevens
  • The Kalamazoo Valley
  • The pioneers, contrasting pictures of great significance
  • County organizations and development
  • Kalamazoo an industrial and commercial center
  • Public schools and other educational institutions
  • Military
  • Land office days in Kalamazoo
  • The Press
  • Miscellaneous: Kalamazoo churches, fraternal organizations, the work of the D.A.R. chapter
  • Kalamazoo State Hospital / Dr. Herman Ostrander
  • Personal records and portraits of noted citizens of Kalamazoo County.

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