HISTORICAL AND SCIENTIFIC SKETCHES OF MICHIGAN. COMPRISING A SERIES OF DISCOURSES DELIVERED BEFORE THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MICHIGAN, AND OTHER INTERESTING PAPERS RELATIVE TO THE TERRITORY

[Michigan]

Verlag: Stephen Wells and George L. Whitney, Detroit, 1834

215pp. Contemporary brown cloth, printed paper label. Extremities worn, hinges tender. Contemporary notations to front flyleaf. Early library stamps on titlepage and several text leaves; bookplate on rear pastedown. Minor scattered foxing. Good. A rare collection of historical sketches relating to the early settlement of Michigan. This work prints the text of the four annual discourses delivered before the Historical Society of Michigan, i.e. those by Lewis Cass, Henry Whiting, John Biddle, and Henry Schoolcraft. Cass' remarks consist of general observations on the early condition of North American Indians in the region, the French expedition to the sources of the Mississippi, Pontiac's attack at Detroit, Indian hostilities, events during the Revolution, etc. Schoolcraft's discourse consists of an account of the Iroquois, Algonquin, Chippewa, Ottawa, Foxes, etc., with some discussion of their relations with the French. Also includes extracts from a lecture given before the Detroit Lyceum by Schoolcraft upon the natural history of Michigan. Whiting and Biddle add further material relating to Indian hostilities, the War of 1812, the early political division of Michigan, mining, public lands disposal, etc. A trove of early Michigan history. "Now very scarce" - Sabin. SABIN 32062. HOWES M582, "aa." MICHIGAN IMPRINTS 203. GREENLY, MICHIGAN 64. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 25738. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers WRCAM53118

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Titel: HISTORICAL AND SCIENTIFIC SKETCHES OF ...
Verlag: Stephen Wells and George L. Whitney, Detroit
Erscheinungsdatum: 1834