[PDF] Lake Michigan And The French Explorers Classic Reprint eBook

Author : Edward Payson Morton
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 20,88 MB
Release : 2018-03-17
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ISBN : 9780364753491

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Excerpt from Lake Michigan and the French Explorers The author and the publishers of the Great Lakes Series feel that it is proper for them to set forth briefly the principles which have guided them in preparing these supplementary readers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Reuben Gold Thwaites
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 13,93 MB
Release : 2018-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780365248088

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Excerpt from Wisconsin The history of Wisconsin concerns itself with three political régimes those of New France, Great Britain, and the United States. Its civiliza tion, however, is of the first and third, for the influence of the second was negligible. When, in 1816, American troops first took possession of Green Bay and Prairie du Chien, the country between Lake Michigan and the Mississippi River was still French to the core. Indeed, still another decade was to pass before the Americanizing process began to show results. These came, not by transforming the character or habits of our mild-mannered and non progressive habitans and voyageurs, who remained quite unchanged through full two centuries of resi dence in Wisconsin, but by means of the influx of New Yorkers and New Englanders, who gradually crowded them to the wall. It was nearly twenty years after American occupation began, before the fur-trade, now managed by Americans but almost wholly manned by French, ceased to be Wiscon sin's dominating industry. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : David Aretha
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 40,96 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781598450989

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"Explores the life of Renâe Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, from his childhood to his travels to his death, his discoveries and accomplishments, and his impact on world history"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Mrs James Flaherty
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 10,74 MB
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : Science
ISBN :

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Excerpt from A Brief Sketch or the Earliest History of Michigan's Great Lake Region Now the Summer Land of the Middle West It is the hope of the writer of this booklet to make vivid some of the more interesting history of Michigan's shore-line and thereby add color and charm to the delights of a summer ramble or sojourn in the wilds of the Michigan Northland. Why take a cruise across the ocean to find beautiful and romantic locations, the sites of thrilling history, when a grand tour of our fresh-water seas will supply them, with their shore-line broken by evergreens, with their ozone-laden air, with their glorious sketches of pure white sand? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Walter Havighurst
Publisher :
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 44,38 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Middle West
ISBN :

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Story of the Midwest from the first explorers to the present, taken from contemporary narratives. Over 100 illustrations.

Author : Simone Payment
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 25,68 MB
Release : 2003-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780823936281

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Profiles the explorer who, upon hearing rumors of the Mississippi River, determined first to find it, then to claim it for France and establish French settlements from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.

Author : Samuel Merwin
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 15,64 MB
Release : 2016-12
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ISBN : 9781334483059

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Excerpt from His Little World: The Story of Hunch Badeau HE life-savin g crew were giving an exhibition drill. A number of peo ple, mostly women and children. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Dan Egan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 36,14 MB
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 0393246442

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New York Times Bestseller Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Award "Nimbly splices together history, science, reporting and personal experiences into a taut and cautiously hopeful narrative.… Egan’s book is bursting with life (and yes, death)." —Robert Moor, New York Times Book Review The Great Lakes—Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior—hold 20 percent of the world’s supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance, work, and recreation for tens of millions of Americans. But they are under threat as never before, and their problems are spreading across the continent. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes is prize-winning reporter Dan Egan’s compulsively readable portrait of an ecological catastrophe happening right before our eyes, blending the epic story of the lakes with an examination of the perils they face and the ways we can restore and preserve them for generations to come.

Author : Milo Milton Quaife
Publisher :
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 27,79 MB
Release : 2015-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781330566893

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Excerpt from Chicago and the Old Northwest, 1673-1835: A Study of the Evolution of the Northwestern Frontier, Together With a History of Fort Dearborn There are many histories of Chicago in existence, yet none of them supplies the want which has induced the preparation of the present work. It has been written under the conviction that there is ample justification for a comprehensive and scholarly treatment of the beginnings of Chicago and its place in the evolution of the old Northwest. I have endeavored to produce a readable narrative without in any way trenching upon the principles of sound scholarship. To what extent, if any, I have succeeded must be for the reader to judge. I may, however, claim the negative virtue of entire freedom from the motives of commercial gain and family partisanship, which enter so largely into our local historical literature. In preparing the work I have made as diligent a study of the sources as practicable, at the same time availing myself freely of the studies of others in the same field. With one exception acknowledgment of my obligations to the latter is made in the footnotes. The manuscript of a lecture by the late Professor Charles W. Mann on the Fort Dearborn massacre was put at my disposal. I have used it as far as it served my purpose without attempting to cite it in the footnotes. In many places I have broken new ground and I can scarcely expect my work to be entirely free from error. I am particularly conscious of this in connection with chap. xiii on the Indian Trade, a subject to which a volume might well be devoted. In controversial matters I have written without fear or favor from any source. If in many cases my conclusions seem to differ from those of other writers, I can only say that the words of a recent historian with reference to history writing in the Middle Ages, "Recorded events were accepted without challenge, and the sanction of tradition guaranteed the reality of the occurrence," apply with almost equal force to much of the literature pertaining to early Chicago. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.