The Making of Michigan, 1820-1860: A Pioneer AnthologyJustin L. Kestenbaum Wayne State University Press, 1990 - 421 من الصفحات The Making of Michigan is a wide-ranging collection of primary accounts of life in Michigan during the pioneer period. The Making of Michigan is a wide-ranging collection of primary accounts of life in Michigan during the pioneer period, the era from the 1820s to the outbreak of the Civil War. In this time of explosive growth, the state's population increased from 8,000 to 750,000. These emigrants brought the state into the union in 1837 and began to create a set of institutions and a way of life. Justin Kestenbaum draws on the rich documentary record left by those who sojourned in the state during this time and recorded their impressions. Not only pioneers but land speculators, missionaries, and sight-seers left valuable accounts of the Michigan landscape and its emerging society. |
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Acknowledgments 79 | 7 |
THE PHYSICAL SETTING | 15 |
The Delights of Mackinac | 56 |
The Romantic Wilderness | 72 |
The Ontonagon Boulder | 101 |
THE GREAT MIGRATION | 113 |
A Zion in the Wilderness | 157 |
Hollanders in Michigan | 181 |
Womens Proper Place | 288 |
REFORM AND THE POLITICAL PROCESS | 299 |
Justice Denied | 310 |
The Michigan Raid | 318 |
Taking the Pledge | 325 |
Royal Fireworks | 337 |
Complete the Asylum | 349 |
The Evil Amongst | 359 |
Life in the Copper Country | 206 |
CREATING AN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM | 221 |
A Wolverine Schoolmaster | 235 |
Champions of the West | 252 |
Charles Jay Monroe | 266 |
Firmness of Purpose | 275 |
The Young Penitent | 369 |
P Van Buren | 378 |
A Seat of Government | 389 |
The Reform Agenda | 403 |
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