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A tour from the city of New-York, to Detroit, in the Michigan territory, made between the 2d of May and the 22d of September, 1818 ... The tour is accompanied with a map upon which the route will be designated; a particular map of the falls and river of Niagara, and the environs of the city of Detroit

A tour from the city of New-York, to Detroit, in the Michigan territor...

In a series of letters, William Darby (1775-1854), who describes himself as a member of the New-York Historical Society, chronicles his journey up the Hudson, across New York to Ogdensburg and Sackett's Harbor ... More

Gazetteer of the state of Michigan, in three parts. Containing a general view of the state, a description of the face of the country, soil, productions, public lands, internal improvements, commerce, government, climate, education, religious denomincations, population, antiquities, &c. &c., with a succinct history of the state, from the earliest period to the present time. Also a particular description of the counties, towns, villages, post offices, water courses, lakes, prairies, &c., alphabetically arranged. With an appendix, containing the usual statistical tables, and a directory for emigrants, &c

Gazetteer of the state of Michigan, in three parts. Containing a gener...

This is a detailed compendium of information about Michigan in 1839. Part One presents a "general view of the state," describing Michigan's geology, soil, climate and topography as well as its improvements, pro... More

Margaret Fuller. Summer on the lakes, in 1843. Public domain book.

Margaret Fuller. Summer on the lakes, in 1843. Public domain book.

Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1810-1850), better known as Margaret Fuller, was a writer, editor, translator, early feminist thinker, critic, and social reformer who was associated with the Transcendentalist mov... More

A true description of the Lake Superior country, its rivers, coasts, bays, harbors, islands, and commerce, with Bayfield's chart; showing the boundary line as established by Joint Commission. Also a minute account of the copper mines and working companies, accompanied by a map of the mineral regions; showing by their no. and place all the different locations ; and containing a concise mode of assaying, treating, smelting, and refining copper ores

A true description of the Lake Superior country, its rivers, coasts, b...

This descriptive discussion of the Lake Superior country emphasizes geographical features and is directed primarily towards those interested in locating and exploiting the region's mineral deposits of copper an... More

A summer in the wilderness; embracing a canoe voyage up the Mississippi and around Lake Superior

A summer in the wilderness; embracing a canoe voyage up the Mississipp...

Charles Lanman (1819-1895) was a Michigan-born landscape painter, sportsman, and writer who studied under Asher Durand and published several books about his journeys through the wilderness and newly developing ... More

Michigan state gazetteer and business directory for 1863-4 : embracing historical and descriptive sketches of all the cities, towns and villages throughout the state ..

Michigan state gazetteer and business directory for 1863-4 : embracing...

This compendium begins with a brief general history and description of Michigan's natural resources, and then gives the same information for each county and the Upper Peninsula. There is also a copy of the stat... More

Among the Wolverines: a series of letters on the resources, growth and business of the principal towns and cities of Michigan ... with an essay on the credit system, and the commericial independence of the Northwest

Among the Wolverines: a series of letters on the resources, growth and...

This pamphlet brings together a series of letters originally published in theChicago Price Current under the pseudonym Massabesic. They chronicle the writer's travels through Michigan's towns and cities by the ... More

The bark covered house, or Back in the woods again; being a graphic and thrilling description of real pioneer life in the wilderness of Michigan (Illustrated.)

The bark covered house, or Back in the woods again; being a graphic an...

This first-person narrative of a pioneer boyhood is intended as a tribute to the author's parents, who emigrated to Dearborn, Michigan, from Putnam County, New York in 1834. William Nowlin describes his father'... More

Trouting on the Brulé River, or, Lawyers' summer-wayfaring in the northern wilderness,

Trouting on the Brulé River, or, Lawyers' summer-wayfaring in the nor...

Trouting on the Brule River is a literary account of genteel sportsmen's fishing expeditions during the summers of 1875 and 1877. Originally published in the Chicago Sunday Times and the Chicago Sunday Tribune,... More

Detroit and the pleasure resorts of northern Michigan. Compliments of Passenger Department of the Detroit, Lansing & Northern Railroad
A summer holiday. A brief description of some of the most popular summer resorts in Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota, and the routes by which they can be reached

A summer holiday. A brief description of some of the most popular summ...

This promotional pamphlet provides brief descriptions of popular tourist destinations along the Upper Midwestern route of the Chicago and North-Western Railway in 1884. The Michigan communities of Escabana, Gog... More

Facts and figures about Michigan; a hand-book of the state, statistical, political, financial, economical, commercial

Facts and figures about Michigan; a hand-book of the state, statistica...

This is a small compendium of statistics, charts, timetables, and political information published by the Michigan Central Railroad. It includes lists of members of state boards, the state legislature, and offic... More

Memorials of a half-century, Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 1910

Memorials of a half-century, Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 1910

This collection of essays by a noted writer, explorer, and Detroit civic leader offers detailed descriptions of Michigan's geography, geology, and local history in a consciously crafted literary style. Hubbard ... More

Marquette, Mackinac Island and the "Soo."

Marquette, Mackinac Island and the "Soo."

This pamphlet consists of photographs of views and landmarks in various locales along the southern shore of Lake Superior: Marquette, St. Ignace, Ishpeming, Champion, Collinsville, Sault Ste. Marie, and Mackina... More

Geographical names in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan, having a Chippewa origin

Geographical names in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan, having a Chi...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

The Vermontville colony, its genesis and history, with personal sketches of the colonists,

The Vermontville colony, its genesis and history, with personal sketch...

This is a detailed history of the founding and development of Vermontville, Michigan. Under the leadership of a Congregational minister named Sylvester Cochrane, a group of men from Bennington, Poultney, Benson... More

Reminiscences of early days on Mackinac Island

Reminiscences of early days on Mackinac Island

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also published separately by the Society. Madison, 1898.

The story of Mackinac, Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 1910

The story of Mackinac, Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 1910

"Originally prepared as an address before the American Library Association, at its meeting on Mackinac Island, September 8, 1896, and in that form published in The Library journal, Dec. 1896." Also available in... More

The standard guide; Mackinac Island and northern lake resorts. With illustrations

The standard guide; Mackinac Island and northern lake resorts. With il...

This is a late nineteenth-century travel guide largely aimed at the recreational traveler. Descriptions of destinations from Mackinac Island to Traverse City and Omena emphasize their scenic and historical inte... More

Men of progress: embracing biographical sketches of representative Michigan men; with an outline history of the state ..

Men of progress: embracing biographical sketches of representative Mic...

This book provides full-page biographies of men prominent in Michigan's business, professional, political, educational, and cultural life in the late nineteenth century. Although the entries are not in alphabet... More

Souvenir, National Grange in Michigan. Lansing, November 12-22, 1902

Souvenir, National Grange in Michigan. Lansing, November 12-22, 1902

This souvenir booklet was published in conjunction with a meeting of the National Grange in Michigan. It not only contains brief histories of the National Grange, the Michigan state grange, and the local chapte... More

Journal of a trip to Michigan in 1841,

Journal of a trip to Michigan in 1841,

This brief journal, written for the author's wife and father, describes a three- week trip from Rochester, New York to southern Michigan by way of the Great Lakes. Swan's business seems to have been the manufac... More

A gallery of pen sketches in black and white of our Michigan friends "as we see 'em.", by Newpaper Cartoonists' Association of Michigan

A gallery of pen sketches in black and white of our Michigan friends "...

This is a collection of cartoons and caricatures of Michigan's business leaders, professionals, politicians, and other notables drawn by cartoonists from such newspapers as the Detroit News and the Free Press. ... More

A child of the sea, and life among the Mormons

A child of the sea, and life among the Mormons

This is the vivid memoir of a mid-nineteenth-century girlhood spent mostly on the islands of Lake Michigan and the onshore communities of Manistique, Charlevoix, Traverse City, and Little Traverse (now Harbor S... More

Collections of the Pioneer Society of the State of Michigan. together with reports of county pioneer societies

Collections of the Pioneer Society of the State of Michigan. together ...

This volume is a collection of several different kinds of important historical documents published by the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society. It opens with a presidential address and other reports, memoria... More

Historical collections made by the Pioneer Society of the State of Michigan

Historical collections made by the Pioneer Society of the State of Mic...

This volume is a collection of several different kinds of important historical documents published by the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society. The first half of the volume is devoted to a fourth installment... More

Collections of the Pioneer Society of the State of Michigan. together with reports of county pioneer societies

Collections of the Pioneer Society of the State of Michigan. together ...

This volume is a collection of several different kinds of important historical documents published by the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society. This is the first of several volumes that contain excerpts from... More

Mackinac register : 1725-1821, register in the parish of Michilimackinac

Mackinac register : 1725-1821, register in the parish of Michilimackin...

"Translation from a copy of the original in possession of the parish church of Ste. Anne at Mackinac." Title from volume title page. Edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites. The continuation of this article (Mackinac re... More

Collections and researches made by the Pioneer Society of the State of Michigan

Collections and researches made by the Pioneer Society of the State of...

This volume is a collection of several different kinds of important historical documents published by the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society. Volume 10 combines approximately two hundred pages of articles ... More

Mackinac register of baptisms and internments, 1695-1821

Mackinac register of baptisms and internments, 1695-1821

"Translation from a transcript of the original, which latter is kept in the parish church of Ste. Anne, at Mackinac." Title from volume title page. Edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites. The first portion of this arti... More

Historical collections made by the Pioneer Society of the State of Michigan. including reports of officers and papers read at the annual meeting of 1887.

Historical collections made by the Pioneer Society of the State of Mic...

This volume is a collection of several different kinds of important historical documents published by the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society. This volume opens with the President of the Society's address a... More

Collections and researches made by the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society. reprint

Collections and researches made by the Michigan Pioneer and Historical...

This volume is a collection of several different kinds of important historical documents published by the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society. It contains a further installment of materials selected from th... More

Collections and researches made by the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society. reprint

Collections and researches made by the Michigan Pioneer and Historical...

This volume is a collection of several different kinds of important historical documents published by the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society. It is devoted to another installment of materials selected from... More

Collections and researches made by the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society. reprint

Collections and researches made by the Michigan Pioneer and Historical...

This volume is a collection of several different kinds of important historical documents published by the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society. It contains the last installment of the Haldimand Papers, conti... More

Medical history of Michigan .., Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 1910

Medical history of Michigan .., Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 19...

This illustrated two-volume set compiled by the Michigan State Medical Society presents information about medical developments in Michigan in the early and middle nineteenth century in loosely-organized chapter... More

Then came May during American Civil War

Then came May during American Civil War

This is the nostalgic reminiscence of a childhood lived on a homestead near Petoskey, in northern Michigan, in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Georgia Hufford's parents, Canadians of Scots ancestry,... More

Between the iron and the pine; a biography of a pioneer family and a pioneer town

Between the iron and the pine; a biography of a pioneer family and a p...

Lewis Reimann was the son of German immigrants who ran a boarding-house for miners and loggers in the Iron River district of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. This book consists of the author's recollections with ane... More

A tour from the city of New-York, to Detroit, in the Michigan territory, made between the 2d of May and the 22d of September, 1818 ... The tour is accompanied with a map upon which the route will be designated; a particular map of the falls and river of Niagara, and the environs of the city of Detroit

A tour from the city of New-York, to Detroit, in the Michigan territor...

In a series of letters, William Darby (1775-1854), who describes himself as a member of the New-York Historical Society, chronicles his journey up the Hudson, across New York to Ogdensburg and Sackett's Harbor ... More

Gazetteer of the state of Michigan, in three parts. Containing a general view of the state, a description of the face of the country, soil, productions, public lands, internal improvements, commerce, government, climate, education, religious denomincations, population, antiquities, &c. &c., with a succinct history of the state, from the earliest period to the present time. Also a particular description of the counties, towns, villages, post offices, water courses, lakes, prairies, &c., alphabetically arranged. With an appendix, containing the usual statistical tables, and a directory for emigrants, &c

Gazetteer of the state of Michigan, in three parts. Containing a gener...

This is a detailed compendium of information about Michigan in 1839. Part One presents a "general view of the state," describing Michigan's geology, soil, climate and topography as well as its improvements, pro... More

Margaret Fuller. Summer on the lakes, in 1843. Public domain book.

Margaret Fuller. Summer on the lakes, in 1843. Public domain book.

Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1810-1850), better known as Margaret Fuller, was a writer, editor, translator, early feminist thinker, critic, and social reformer who was associated with the Transcendentalist mov... More

A true description of the Lake Superior country, its rivers, coasts, bays, harbors, islands, and commerce, with Bayfield's chart; showing the boundary line as established by Joint Commission. Also a minute account of the copper mines and working companies, accompanied by a map of the mineral regions; showing by their no. and place all the different locations ; and containing a concise mode of assaying, treating, smelting, and refining copper ores

A true description of the Lake Superior country, its rivers, coasts, b...

This descriptive discussion of the Lake Superior country emphasizes geographical features and is directed primarily towards those interested in locating and exploiting the region's mineral deposits of copper an... More

A summer in the wilderness; embracing a canoe voyage up the Mississippi and around Lake Superior

A summer in the wilderness; embracing a canoe voyage up the Mississipp...

Charles Lanman (1819-1895) was a Michigan-born landscape painter, sportsman, and writer who studied under Asher Durand and published several books about his journeys through the wilderness and newly developing ... More

Michigan state gazetteer and business directory for 1863-4 : embracing historical and descriptive sketches of all the cities, towns and villages throughout the state ..

Michigan state gazetteer and business directory for 1863-4 : embracing...

This compendium begins with a brief general history and description of Michigan's natural resources, and then gives the same information for each county and the Upper Peninsula. There is also a copy of the stat... More

Among the Wolverines: a series of letters on the resources, growth and business of the principal towns and cities of Michigan ... with an essay on the credit system, and the commericial independence of the Northwest

Among the Wolverines: a series of letters on the resources, growth and...

This pamphlet brings together a series of letters originally published in theChicago Price Current under the pseudonym Massabesic. They chronicle the writer's travels through Michigan's towns and cities by the ... More

The bark covered house, or Back in the woods again; being a graphic and thrilling description of real pioneer life in the wilderness of Michigan (Illustrated.)

The bark covered house, or Back in the woods again; being a graphic an...

This first-person narrative of a pioneer boyhood is intended as a tribute to the author's parents, who emigrated to Dearborn, Michigan, from Putnam County, New York in 1834. William Nowlin describes his father'... More

Trouting on the Brulé River, or, Lawyers' summer-wayfaring in the northern wilderness,

Trouting on the Brulé River, or, Lawyers' summer-wayfaring in the nor...

Trouting on the Brule River is a literary account of genteel sportsmen's fishing expeditions during the summers of 1875 and 1877. Originally published in the Chicago Sunday Times and the Chicago Sunday Tribune,... More

Detroit and the pleasure resorts of northern Michigan. Compliments of Passenger Department of the Detroit, Lansing & Northern Railroad
A summer holiday. A brief description of some of the most popular summer resorts in Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota, and the routes by which they can be reached

A summer holiday. A brief description of some of the most popular summ...

This promotional pamphlet provides brief descriptions of popular tourist destinations along the Upper Midwestern route of the Chicago and North-Western Railway in 1884. The Michigan communities of Escabana, Gog... More

Facts and figures about Michigan; a hand-book of the state, statistical, political, financial, economical, commercial

Facts and figures about Michigan; a hand-book of the state, statistica...

This is a small compendium of statistics, charts, timetables, and political information published by the Michigan Central Railroad. It includes lists of members of state boards, the state legislature, and offic... More

Memorials of a half-century, Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 1910

Memorials of a half-century, Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 1910

This collection of essays by a noted writer, explorer, and Detroit civic leader offers detailed descriptions of Michigan's geography, geology, and local history in a consciously crafted literary style. Hubbard ... More

Marquette, Mackinac Island and the "Soo."

Marquette, Mackinac Island and the "Soo."

This pamphlet consists of photographs of views and landmarks in various locales along the southern shore of Lake Superior: Marquette, St. Ignace, Ishpeming, Champion, Collinsville, Sault Ste. Marie, and Mackina... More

Geographical names in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan, having a Chippewa origin

Geographical names in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan, having a Chi...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

The Vermontville colony, its genesis and history, with personal sketches of the colonists,

The Vermontville colony, its genesis and history, with personal sketch...

This is a detailed history of the founding and development of Vermontville, Michigan. Under the leadership of a Congregational minister named Sylvester Cochrane, a group of men from Bennington, Poultney, Benson... More

Reminiscences of early days on Mackinac Island

Reminiscences of early days on Mackinac Island

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also published separately by the Society. Madison, 1898.

The story of Mackinac, Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 1910

The story of Mackinac, Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 1910

"Originally prepared as an address before the American Library Association, at its meeting on Mackinac Island, September 8, 1896, and in that form published in The Library journal, Dec. 1896." Also available in... More

The standard guide; Mackinac Island and northern lake resorts. With illustrations

The standard guide; Mackinac Island and northern lake resorts. With il...

This is a late nineteenth-century travel guide largely aimed at the recreational traveler. Descriptions of destinations from Mackinac Island to Traverse City and Omena emphasize their scenic and historical inte... More

Men of progress: embracing biographical sketches of representative Michigan men; with an outline history of the state ..

Men of progress: embracing biographical sketches of representative Mic...

This book provides full-page biographies of men prominent in Michigan's business, professional, political, educational, and cultural life in the late nineteenth century. Although the entries are not in alphabet... More

Souvenir, National Grange in Michigan. Lansing, November 12-22, 1902

Souvenir, National Grange in Michigan. Lansing, November 12-22, 1902

This souvenir booklet was published in conjunction with a meeting of the National Grange in Michigan. It not only contains brief histories of the National Grange, the Michigan state grange, and the local chapte... More

Journal of a trip to Michigan in 1841,

Journal of a trip to Michigan in 1841,

This brief journal, written for the author's wife and father, describes a three- week trip from Rochester, New York to southern Michigan by way of the Great Lakes. Swan's business seems to have been the manufac... More

A gallery of pen sketches in black and white of our Michigan friends "as we see 'em.", by Newpaper Cartoonists' Association of Michigan

A gallery of pen sketches in black and white of our Michigan friends "...

This is a collection of cartoons and caricatures of Michigan's business leaders, professionals, politicians, and other notables drawn by cartoonists from such newspapers as the Detroit News and the Free Press. ... More

A child of the sea, and life among the Mormons

A child of the sea, and life among the Mormons

This is the vivid memoir of a mid-nineteenth-century girlhood spent mostly on the islands of Lake Michigan and the onshore communities of Manistique, Charlevoix, Traverse City, and Little Traverse (now Harbor S... More

Collections of the Pioneer Society of the State of Michigan. together with reports of county pioneer societies

Collections of the Pioneer Society of the State of Michigan. together ...

This volume is a collection of several different kinds of important historical documents published by the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society. It opens with a presidential address and other reports, memoria... More

Collections and researches made by the Pioneer Society of the State of Michigan

Collections and researches made by the Pioneer Society of the State of...

This volume is a collection of several different kinds of important historical documents published by the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society. Volume 10 combines approximately two hundred pages of articles ... More

Mackinac register of baptisms and internments, 1695-1821

Mackinac register of baptisms and internments, 1695-1821

"Translation from a transcript of the original, which latter is kept in the parish church of Ste. Anne, at Mackinac." Title from volume title page. Edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites. The first portion of this arti... More

Historical collections made by the Pioneer Society of the State of Michigan. including reports of officers and papers read at the annual meeting of 1887.

Historical collections made by the Pioneer Society of the State of Mic...

This volume is a collection of several different kinds of important historical documents published by the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society. This volume opens with the President of the Society's address a... More

Historical collections made by the Pioneer Society of the State of Michigan

Historical collections made by the Pioneer Society of the State of Mic...

This volume is a collection of several different kinds of important historical documents published by the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society. The first half of the volume is devoted to a fourth installment... More

Collections of the Pioneer Society of the State of Michigan. together with reports of county pioneer societies

Collections of the Pioneer Society of the State of Michigan. together ...

This volume is a collection of several different kinds of important historical documents published by the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society. This is the first of several volumes that contain excerpts from... More

Mackinac register : 1725-1821, register in the parish of Michilimackinac

Mackinac register : 1725-1821, register in the parish of Michilimackin...

"Translation from a copy of the original in possession of the parish church of Ste. Anne at Mackinac." Title from volume title page. Edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites. The continuation of this article (Mackinac re... More

Collections and researches made by the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society. reprint

Collections and researches made by the Michigan Pioneer and Historical...

This volume is a collection of several different kinds of important historical documents published by the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society. It contains a further installment of materials selected from th... More

Collections and researches made by the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society. reprint

Collections and researches made by the Michigan Pioneer and Historical...

This volume is a collection of several different kinds of important historical documents published by the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society. It is devoted to another installment of materials selected from... More

Collections and researches made by the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society. reprint

Collections and researches made by the Michigan Pioneer and Historical...

This volume is a collection of several different kinds of important historical documents published by the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society. It contains the last installment of the Haldimand Papers, conti... More

Medical history of Michigan .., Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 1910

Medical history of Michigan .., Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 19...

This illustrated two-volume set compiled by the Michigan State Medical Society presents information about medical developments in Michigan in the early and middle nineteenth century in loosely-organized chapter... More

Then came May during American Civil War

Then came May during American Civil War

This is the nostalgic reminiscence of a childhood lived on a homestead near Petoskey, in northern Michigan, in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Georgia Hufford's parents, Canadians of Scots ancestry,... More

Between the iron and the pine; a biography of a pioneer family and a pioneer town

Between the iron and the pine; a biography of a pioneer family and a p...

Lewis Reimann was the son of German immigrants who ran a boarding-house for miners and loggers in the Iron River district of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. This book consists of the author's recollections with ane... More

A tour from the city of New-York, to Detroit, in the Michigan territory, made between the 2d of May and the 22d of September, 1818 ... The tour is accompanied with a map upon which the route will be designated; a particular map of the falls and river of Niagara, and the environs of the city of Detroit

A tour from the city of New-York, to Detroit, in the Michigan territor...

In a series of letters, William Darby (1775-1854), who describes himself as a member of the New-York Historical Society, chronicles his journey up the Hudson, across New York to Ogdensburg and Sackett's Harbor ... More

Gazetteer of the state of Michigan, in three parts. Containing a general view of the state, a description of the face of the country, soil, productions, public lands, internal improvements, commerce, government, climate, education, religious denomincations, population, antiquities, &c. &c., with a succinct history of the state, from the earliest period to the present time. Also a particular description of the counties, towns, villages, post offices, water courses, lakes, prairies, &c., alphabetically arranged. With an appendix, containing the usual statistical tables, and a directory for emigrants, &c

Gazetteer of the state of Michigan, in three parts. Containing a gener...

This is a detailed compendium of information about Michigan in 1839. Part One presents a "general view of the state," describing Michigan's geology, soil, climate and topography as well as its improvements, pro... More

Margaret Fuller. Summer on the lakes, in 1843. Public domain book.

Margaret Fuller. Summer on the lakes, in 1843. Public domain book.

Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1810-1850), better known as Margaret Fuller, was a writer, editor, translator, early feminist thinker, critic, and social reformer who was associated with the Transcendentalist mov... More

A true description of the Lake Superior country, its rivers, coasts, bays, harbors, islands, and commerce, with Bayfield's chart; showing the boundary line as established by Joint Commission. Also a minute account of the copper mines and working companies, accompanied by a map of the mineral regions; showing by their no. and place all the different locations ; and containing a concise mode of assaying, treating, smelting, and refining copper ores

A true description of the Lake Superior country, its rivers, coasts, b...

This descriptive discussion of the Lake Superior country emphasizes geographical features and is directed primarily towards those interested in locating and exploiting the region's mineral deposits of copper an... More

A summer in the wilderness; embracing a canoe voyage up the Mississippi and around Lake Superior

A summer in the wilderness; embracing a canoe voyage up the Mississipp...

Charles Lanman (1819-1895) was a Michigan-born landscape painter, sportsman, and writer who studied under Asher Durand and published several books about his journeys through the wilderness and newly developing ... More

Michigan state gazetteer and business directory for 1863-4 : embracing historical and descriptive sketches of all the cities, towns and villages throughout the state ..

Michigan state gazetteer and business directory for 1863-4 : embracing...

This compendium begins with a brief general history and description of Michigan's natural resources, and then gives the same information for each county and the Upper Peninsula. There is also a copy of the stat... More

Among the Wolverines: a series of letters on the resources, growth and business of the principal towns and cities of Michigan ... with an essay on the credit system, and the commericial independence of the Northwest

Among the Wolverines: a series of letters on the resources, growth and...

This pamphlet brings together a series of letters originally published in theChicago Price Current under the pseudonym Massabesic. They chronicle the writer's travels through Michigan's towns and cities by the ... More

The bark covered house, or Back in the woods again; being a graphic and thrilling description of real pioneer life in the wilderness of Michigan (Illustrated.)

The bark covered house, or Back in the woods again; being a graphic an...

This first-person narrative of a pioneer boyhood is intended as a tribute to the author's parents, who emigrated to Dearborn, Michigan, from Putnam County, New York in 1834. William Nowlin describes his father'... More

Trouting on the Brulé River, or, Lawyers' summer-wayfaring in the northern wilderness,

Trouting on the Brulé River, or, Lawyers' summer-wayfaring in the nor...

Trouting on the Brule River is a literary account of genteel sportsmen's fishing expeditions during the summers of 1875 and 1877. Originally published in the Chicago Sunday Times and the Chicago Sunday Tribune,... More

Detroit and the pleasure resorts of northern Michigan. Compliments of Passenger Department of the Detroit, Lansing & Northern Railroad
A summer holiday. A brief description of some of the most popular summer resorts in Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota, and the routes by which they can be reached

A summer holiday. A brief description of some of the most popular summ...

This promotional pamphlet provides brief descriptions of popular tourist destinations along the Upper Midwestern route of the Chicago and North-Western Railway in 1884. The Michigan communities of Escabana, Gog... More

Facts and figures about Michigan; a hand-book of the state, statistical, political, financial, economical, commercial

Facts and figures about Michigan; a hand-book of the state, statistica...

This is a small compendium of statistics, charts, timetables, and political information published by the Michigan Central Railroad. It includes lists of members of state boards, the state legislature, and offic... More

Memorials of a half-century, Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 1910

Memorials of a half-century, Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 1910

This collection of essays by a noted writer, explorer, and Detroit civic leader offers detailed descriptions of Michigan's geography, geology, and local history in a consciously crafted literary style. Hubbard ... More

Marquette, Mackinac Island and the "Soo."

Marquette, Mackinac Island and the "Soo."

This pamphlet consists of photographs of views and landmarks in various locales along the southern shore of Lake Superior: Marquette, St. Ignace, Ishpeming, Champion, Collinsville, Sault Ste. Marie, and Mackina... More

Geographical names in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan, having a Chippewa origin

Geographical names in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan, having a Chi...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

The Vermontville colony, its genesis and history, with personal sketches of the colonists,

The Vermontville colony, its genesis and history, with personal sketch...

This is a detailed history of the founding and development of Vermontville, Michigan. Under the leadership of a Congregational minister named Sylvester Cochrane, a group of men from Bennington, Poultney, Benson... More

The story of Mackinac, Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 1910

The story of Mackinac, Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 1910

"Originally prepared as an address before the American Library Association, at its meeting on Mackinac Island, September 8, 1896, and in that form published in The Library journal, Dec. 1896." Also available in... More

Reminiscences of early days on Mackinac Island

Reminiscences of early days on Mackinac Island

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also published separately by the Society. Madison, 1898.

The standard guide; Mackinac Island and northern lake resorts. With illustrations

The standard guide; Mackinac Island and northern lake resorts. With il...

This is a late nineteenth-century travel guide largely aimed at the recreational traveler. Descriptions of destinations from Mackinac Island to Traverse City and Omena emphasize their scenic and historical inte... More

Men of progress: embracing biographical sketches of representative Michigan men; with an outline history of the state ..

Men of progress: embracing biographical sketches of representative Mic...

This book provides full-page biographies of men prominent in Michigan's business, professional, political, educational, and cultural life in the late nineteenth century. Although the entries are not in alphabet... More

Souvenir, National Grange in Michigan. Lansing, November 12-22, 1902

Souvenir, National Grange in Michigan. Lansing, November 12-22, 1902

This souvenir booklet was published in conjunction with a meeting of the National Grange in Michigan. It not only contains brief histories of the National Grange, the Michigan state grange, and the local chapte... More

Journal of a trip to Michigan in 1841,

Journal of a trip to Michigan in 1841,

This brief journal, written for the author's wife and father, describes a three- week trip from Rochester, New York to southern Michigan by way of the Great Lakes. Swan's business seems to have been the manufac... More

A child of the sea, and life among the Mormons

A child of the sea, and life among the Mormons

This is the vivid memoir of a mid-nineteenth-century girlhood spent mostly on the islands of Lake Michigan and the onshore communities of Manistique, Charlevoix, Traverse City, and Little Traverse (now Harbor S... More

A gallery of pen sketches in black and white of our Michigan friends "as we see 'em.", by Newpaper Cartoonists' Association of Michigan

A gallery of pen sketches in black and white of our Michigan friends "...

This is a collection of cartoons and caricatures of Michigan's business leaders, professionals, politicians, and other notables drawn by cartoonists from such newspapers as the Detroit News and the Free Press. ... More

Collections of the Pioneer Society of the State of Michigan. together with reports of county pioneer societies

Collections of the Pioneer Society of the State of Michigan. together ...

This volume is a collection of several different kinds of important historical documents published by the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society. It opens with a presidential address and other reports, memoria... More

Mackinac register of baptisms and internments, 1695-1821

Mackinac register of baptisms and internments, 1695-1821

"Translation from a transcript of the original, which latter is kept in the parish church of Ste. Anne, at Mackinac." Title from volume title page. Edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites. The first portion of this arti... More

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