Excerpt from Historic Mackinac, Vol. 1 of 2: The Historical, Picturesque and Legendary Features of the Mackinac Country; Illustrated From Sketches, Drawings, Maps and Photographs, With an Original Map of Mackinac Island, Made Especially for This Work
During the many summers which the author spent on Mackinac Island, interest in the history and romance of the Island and the surrounding region grew steadily, until books of travel, fiction and history connected with the Mackinac country, and maps of the Great Lakes region, were collected, forming an extensive historical and refer ence library pertaining especially to the Old Northwest. Winter evenings and vacation periods were occupied in reading about the Indians, the heroic priests at the missions, the soldiers and traders in the frontier garrisons, and the gay voyageurs and adventurous coureurs de bois in the northern wilderness. The writer, for a number of years, had been a member of the Mackinac Island State Park Com mission, and the Michigan Historical Commission, with the result that exceptional opportunities were afforded for study of the Island and its place in history. Gradually it was determined to bring together the rich and varied ma terial relating to this historic and romantic field. And thus began a labour of love, which has since been extended to include fragments connected with the entire field of the Old Northwest.
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