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id: 29057
author: Crapo, Henry Howland
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  farmers generally, not only as to the most desirable breed of sheep, but The subject of Sheep-Husbandry with us is certainly an important one--wool being a great, leading staple product of our State; and very class of sheep are seen, that a strong preference for fine-wooled present time among the farmers of this State, and money in the purchase such wool to sell, taken from sheep for which he paid very large prices, increased demand, but has enhanced the price of this kind of wool, which the more general breeding of long wool sheep. When the price of wool is high, the farmers are too reluctant to sell than because at that time the price of wool was very low and the market important matter in connection with sheep husbandry in this State. prejudice of the manufacturers against "Michigan wool" was so great that this great evil, and to place "Michigan wool" where it should most

title:
  Address delivered by Hon. Henry H. Crapo, Governor of Michigan, before the Central Michigan Agricultural Society, at their Sheep-shearing Exhibition held at the Agricultural College Farm, on Thursday, May 24th, 1866


id: 29608
title: Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman With Custer''s Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War
author: Kidd, James Harvey
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  history of the civil war as Troop E, Sixth Michigan cavalry Second brigade, Third division, cavalry corps, army of the Potomac. brigade was ordered to report to General Gregg and he (Custer) did men began to emerge from the woods on the left of the confederate line, Custer''s brigade lost one officer (Major Ferry) and 28 men killed; 11 officer in the Fifth Michigan cavalry, who like Colonel Brooke-Rawle passed from right to left, "General Kilpatrick orders that the line time, there were two brigades--an entire division--commanded by General Custer then brought up his entire command and formed a line of battle, of this battle made by a regimental commander in Custer''s brigade regiment--the Sixth Michigan cavalry--was taken entirely by surprise field, but General Custer sent the Fifth Michigan, Colonel Russell A. commanders of the Michigan cavalry brigade regiments for the Gettysburg officers and the intrepidity of the men in the Michigan cavalry brigade


id: 23248
title: The Black Feather From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899
author: Catherwood, Mary Hartwell
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  Charle'' Charette, who was the giant and the wearer of the black feather light-hearted voyageur had been married to ''Tite Laboise. Mademoiselle Laboise, while the French girl was called merely ''Tite. To her husband himself she was ''Tite Laboise, the most Let madame look at the black feather in his out before all Mackinac and dance with any other voyageurs who crowded voyageur was out of the Fur Company''s yard in Mackinac his own will was with ''Tite Laboise''s dancing partner. Étienne St. Martin picked up a beaver-skin, and in the sight of ''Tite Mackinac because he carries a black feather in his cap. in his mind and in the yard, but he knew ''Tite Laboise flew through the "I didn''t want to have trouble with that Charle'' Charette and that ''Tite "''Tite Laboise, why did you shut the door in my face when I came back to


id: 22550
title: Old Mackinaw; Or, The Fortress of the Lakes and its Surroundings
author: Strickland, W. P. (William Peter)
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  shore of Lake Michigan, extending his conquests to Grand River, and born near the head of Lake Michigan--the year not known. extremity of Lake Huron, entered for the first time the old Indian they reached the shore of Lake Michigan the Indians returned, and with Lake Superior, being but about fifty miles north of Mackinaw and "From Mackinaw to Fon du Lac (west end of Lake Superior), 550 miles; "From any other point of Lakes Michigan or Superior, where a city can region west of Superior to the Lake of the Woods and the Red River, growth of river and lake cities -Centre of population -growth of river and lake cities -Centre of population -great lakes and rivers the trade of the surrounding country. business -Railroads -Lake Superior trade -Pine lumber business -Railroads -Lake Superior trade -Pine lumber


id: 9949
author: Nowlin, William
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  Father said that Michigan was a beautiful country, that the soil was as When father came, and mother told him the liberty the lady had taken, he When father heard this, with other things he had said, he thought he was Father saw him, came in, took his rifle down from the hooks and told Father went into a log house on the north side of the Chicago road and father came he said they had found plenty of good grass and he wished I told father I was sick, he said I had better go home and I going home straight through the woods, so took our way to the Reed house, Father said that he thought the trees years old at that time and thought I had a very good rifle and knew how settled on father''s old place, and lived there when we came to Michigan.

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  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


id: 6988
author: Blackbird, Andrew J.
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  C. Leach, of Traverse City, Mich., was Indian Agent, Mr. Blackbird was appointed United States Interpreter and continued in this Indians now existing in the State of Michigan, called the Ottawa and correct account of the Ottawa and Chippewa tribes of Indians, according Ottawa tribe of Indians at that time, and, according to our knowledge, called "Their Great Father." The reason that to-day we see no fullgrown trees standing along the coast of Arbor Croche, a mile or more in white man came to the Indian''s wigwam in the dead of night, and dragged Therefore, the Ottawas and Chippewas called them "Paw-gwatchaw-nish-naw-boy." The last time they were seen by the Ottawas, they Some years ago a white man came to the Indian country and Coming to Ottawa Island in a Hostile Manner, Headed by O-saw-wah-ne-mekee, "The Yellow Thunder"--Death of Kaw-be-naw, one of the Greatest Ottawa and Chippewa Indians came in contact with white people in this

title:
  History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan A Grammar of Their Language, and Personal and Family History of the Author


id: 6436
title: Castle Nowhere
author: Woolson, Constance Fenimore
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  ''Simple-minded old fellow,'' thought Waring, lighting a fresh pipe; well?'' said the old man, looking up fondly as he fastened his skiff. Go, child, go; do not grieve me,'' said the old man ''Poor old man,'' he said, ''how he must have worked and That is it, you do not know,'' said the old man, the young man set sail and away they flew over the angry water; old Waring''s hands stopped; never before had the old man''s voice taken said Waring, turning his head away from the face pillowed on his ''Old man, why are you not afraid of me?'' said Waring, pausing in his ''To the Mormons,'' said Waring, laughing; for he had heard old Fog tell ''If you doubt it, look at this,'' said the little man; and he brought ''The old man is sick, to-day,'' said Rodney. In the old days, when I was living at the little white fort, I had


id: 32050
title: The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State
author: Gleason, Henry A. (Henry Allan)
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  Flowers white, in clusters; leaves linear-lanceolate, acute, Ovaries 3-6 in number; flowers in spikes or racemes; leaves linear Leaves all basal; flowers numerous in a spike-like raceme (Arrow Stem-leaves present; flowers in a loose bracted raceme (1-3 dm. Small herbs with basal leaves and erect flower-stalks bearing a head of Leaves distinctly clasping the stem; flowers greenish-white One species in Michigan; leaves ovate-cordate; flowers in summer Leaves lanceolate or ovate (flowers pink, white, or red, in summer) Climbing plants with opposite leaves (flowers in late summer) Flowers white; stem-leaves alternate Flowers white to pink or purplish; stem-leaves whorled Trees; leaves 2-3-pinnate (flowers greenish-white, spring) high; flowers yellowish-white, late summer) (Bush Clover) --40. Leaves linear or nearly so (flowers purple; summer) --7b. Leaves rounded, floating (flowers white, summer) leaves (flowers pale-blue to nearly white, late spring and summer) Leaves 5-angled or shallowy 5-lobed (flowers white, summer)


id: 35006
title: An Experimental Translocation of the Eastern Timber Wolf
author: Robinson, William Laughlin
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  National Park, Lake Superior, Michigan (Mech 1966; Wolfe and Allen 1973; [Illustration: _Fig. 2.--Range of the wolf in Upper Michigan in 1973, Mountain Club, the wolf release area, would be about 1,000 deer. pack of wolves in Minnesota, fit each animal with a radio-collar half-mile (0.8 km) of the release pen as food for the wolves after their [Illustration: _Fig. 14.--The Minnesota wolves in their Michigan pen wolves killed a deer there, for they remained in the area for a few The next day, lone Wolf No. 10, back in the Huron Mountain area, killed [Illustration: _Fig. 21.--Each deer killed by the translocated wolves March 12 Wolves released in Huron Mountain area March 12 Wolves released in Huron Mountain area March 25 Wolves reported in Pelkie area 6 miles (9.6 km) April 15 Wolves killed deer near Kenton (T47N-R36W-Sec 8) locations for (A) Wolves No. 11, 12, and 13, (B) Wolf No. 10.


id: 37753
author: Dice, Lee R. (Lee Raymond)
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  _Beach habitat:_ The shore of Lake Superior at Little Girl''s Point is _Tall-sedge habitat:_ In the beaver meadow studied near Gogebic Lake, near Gogebic Lake extensive arbor-vitae swamps are reported to occur. _Wet hardwood forest habitat:_ The land adjoining much of Gogebic Lake in the wet hardwood forests near Gogebic Lake, bob-tailed shrews being ground studied near Gogebic Lake, a number of alders and paper birches, In the Cisco Lake Region in July, one was taken in a small black spruce Near Gogebic Lake, Ontonagon County, one was taken September 4 in a Little Girl''s Point district, 10; and near Gogebic Lake in Ontonagon spruce-tamarack bog was taken near Gogebic Lake in a boggy swamp, In the wet hardwood forest near Gogebic Lake Blarina runways are hemlock forest near the lake shore; and one was seen in wet hardwood Lake Gogebic; and only a few were seen near Little Girl''s Point.

title:
  Notes on the Mammals of Gogebic and Ontonagon Counties, Michigan, 1920 Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, Number 109


id: 37871
title: Dandelion Cottage
author: Rankin, Carroll Watson
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  said Bettie, locking the door carefully when the girls were outside. "Bettie _is_ a sweet little girl," said Mrs. Mapes, "but she''s far too "I declare," said Mrs. Mapes one day, "the only time I see Jean, "There''s no use talking," said Jean, one day, as the girls sat at their "While we''re about it," said Bettie, "I think we''d better have Mrs. Crane to dinner, too. "Girls," said Jean, when she and Bettie were in the kitchen with the "But, Bettie," said Mrs. Tucker, when her little daughter, helped by "I strongly suspect," said Mr. Black, smiling over Bettie''s head at Mr. Blossom, "that you don''t really _want_ me to dinner." "Laura certainly likes to boss," said Bettie, who looked pale and "I''m not exactly afraid," said Bettie, "but I don''t like Mrs. Milligan. "It looks like Milligan," said Bettie, turning it over, "but we can''t


id: 34769
title: A Child of the Sea; and Life Among the Mormons
author: Williams, Elizabeth Whitney
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  his time, was honorably discharged, came to Fort Brady, Sault Ste. Marie, from there to Mackinac Island, there married my mother, who was a years, passing away since my residence at Little Traverse Light House on the little harbor and put out a good dock, built a large store and house Tailpoint Light House, twenty-two years at Green Bay. I remember one very nice neighbor we had at this time. I said, "Me want to go home and see Charley." Mother came to explain I One day a young Indian came to our house to see and talk to Mary. Father soon came and took little After a time little brother and I wanted to see Mary, so father took us About the time my people came to Beaver Island the property at the Point Mother soon came home, telling of the want and suffering among the at the same time, people who came to see King Strang''s Island.


id: 41394
title: Michigan Trees: A Handbook of the Native and Most Important Introduced Species
author: Otis, Charles Herbert
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  i. Leaf-petioles 5-6 inches long; leaves lustrous above; twigs Leaf-petioles about 1 inch long; leaves dull above; twigs WINTER-BUDS.--Terminal bud 1/4 inch long, ovoid, rounded, pale brown; BARK.--Twigs yellow-green, becoming purple, finally dark red-brown and WINTER-BUDS.--About 3/4 inch long, ovoid or conical, acute, red-brown, WINTER-BUDS.--Broadly ovoid, obtuse, light brown, 1/8-1/4 inch long. WINTER-BUDS.--Ovoid, acute, light red-brown, puberulous, 1/8 inch long. WINTER-BUDS.--Ovoid, acute, red-brown, not resinous, about 3/8 inch long. c. Buds greenish; twigs glabrous; fruit 1-1/2-2 inches long. Buds red-brown; twigs long-hairy; fruit less than 1 inch WINTER-BUDS.--Terminal bud about 1 inch long, ovoid, obtuse, dark brown, WINTER-BUDS.--Terminal bud 1/2-3/4 inch long, broadly ovoid, red-brown, WINTER-BUDS.--1/4-1/2 inch long, dome-shaped, red-brown, smooth. nut oblong-ovoid with a broad base, about 1 inch long, red-brown; kernel WINTER-BUDS.--Terminal bud 1/4 inch long, ovoid, acute, light brown, HABIT.--A tree 40-50 feet high and 12-15 inches in trunk diameter; long, short-ovoid, 1/2-3/4 inch long, light red-brown; kernel whitish, bitter.


id: 33648
author: Dice, Lee R. (Lee Raymond)
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  THE MAMMALS OF WARREN WOODS, BERRIEN COUNTY, MICHIGAN each habitat indicate the number of individuals trapped, shot, or seen Fifty mouse traps set in this habitat took eight northern white-footed few mouse traps set on the bare mud shore one northern white-footed In this habitat four northern white-footed mice were trapped August 3-4. and seventy mouse traps set in the flood-plain forests along the Fifty mouse traps set August 26 in a large ravine north of the county trapped in open beech-maple-oak forest at the edge of a cleared white-footed mice, Pennsylvania voles, and a house mouse were trapped Fifty mouse traps set in this habitat took on the first day, August Fifty traps set in this habitat, on August 8, took on the first night Fifty mouse traps set in this habitat took on the first night, August Flood-plain forest in Warren Woods.

title:
  The Mammals of Warren Woods, Berrien County, Michigan Occasional Paper of the Museum of Zoology, Number 86


id: 33507
title: The Mammals of Washtenaw County, Michigan Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, No. 123
author: Wood, Norman Asa
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  although a few trees occur on the south bank of the Huron River near at Ann Arbor in 1824, and many pioneers arrived in the county during the February 5, 1912, a trapper took a specimen near Ann Arbor on a night We have records for Lodi Township, Ann Arbor, _Eptesicus fuscus fuscus._ Large Brown Bat.--Common at Ann Arbor and taken in Steere''s Swamp, near Ann Arbor, in the winter of 1882. four miles south of Ann Arbor; this, he states, is his first record for near Ann Arbor and Portage Lake. at hand for Ann Arbor, Pittsfield Township, and Portage Lake. for Ann Arbor, Pittsfield Township, Portage Lake, Saline, and Ypsilanti. in Lodi Township, and the last one known in the county was killed near taken from a nest near Ann Arbor. I have found no record of live elk seen in the county, and Covert[5] records one seen in the county in 1879.


id: 33679
title: Seeds of Michigan Weeds
author: Beal, W. J. (William James)
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  (Sorrel, mustard, narrow-leaved plantain in seeds of red of grasses, clovers and alfalfas, besides large numbers of common weeds Seeds brown to black, more or less slightly granular, shining, flattened long; seeds dark brown to black, seeds reddish brown to lead color, slightly flattened, circular to seeds dark lead-color, flattened, short-kidney-shaped to circular with Flowers white; seeds reddish yellow to dark brown, somewhat flattened, flattened; seeds reddish brown, circular, broad oval, or rhombic in vertical ridge; seeds reddish brown, granular, usually broad-oval, about Br. Petals white; pods flat, nearly circular; seeds dull, dark brown, cream-color; pods long and narrow; seeds reddish yellow, oblong, about convex, nearly circular; seeds deep reddish brown, flat-oval or ovate, as long; seed reddish brown, smooth, oval, slightly flattened, 1.7-1.9 radiating ridges; seeds light brown, nearly smooth, flattened, 1.4-1.7 Flowers yellow; seeds reddish brown or darker, surface dull, long; seeds black to brown, flattened, with 6-10


id: 44637
title: Brother Billy
author: Fox, Frances Margaret
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  Like an old-time Indian, Billy managed to keep out of the "She can tell you about the signals, Billy," said Aunt Florence, "and "Poor old Hero, he wants to come in," said Billy. "Oh, yes," Betty assured Antoine, "Billy loves the baby." When Betty heard of Billy''s plan, she said she didn''t know he could Betty, Billy, and Aunt Florence called at the Frenchman''s home, Antoine "Beely, I tole you one bear story, you tell ole Antoine why your aunt "How are you going to begin, Aunt Florence?" asked Betty, as Antoine "And do you know, Beely, that little pet bear don''t want to come on go like this, Beely." Antoine tried to make Betty, Billy, and Aunt think good-bye, Antoine, for the big bear came and pokes me two time Antoine, giving Billy a wink, began again before Aunt Florence or Betty Gerald and little Billy welcomed their Aunt Florence and their Uncle


id: 46269
title: Mark Tidd in Business
author: Kelland, Clarence Budington
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  "B-b-business," says Mark, "hain''t nothin'' but makin'' m-money out of "In that case," says Mr. Skip, scowling until his two eyes looked like "I''m goin'' to give Mr. Skip the time of his life," says Mark. "Plunk," says Mark, "Mr. Skip ''ll think his Grand Openin'' has a "L-lots of folks''ll buy things they hain''t got any use for," says Mark, "Tallow and Binney''ll stay inside," says Mark, "to l-look after folks Mark he looked at them for half a minute without saying a word. "Plunk," says Mark, patient-like, "have I got to draw a picture of this "Um," says Mark; "looks like a d-d-dangerous kind of a deal, don''t it?" "I want to talk to the man that runs this business," says Mark. "Yes, sir," says Mark, and Old Mose scowled at him like he was ready to "Mark," says he, "is it a fact that Old Mose has got a thousand votes?"


id: 46586
title: Alice Wilde: The Raftsman''s Daughter. A Forest Romance
author: Victor, Metta Victoria Fuller
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  as expects to marry Miss Alice?" his voice trembled, and he looked at "Come and look at my beautiful presents, Pallas," cried her young Alice looked up into the rough sun-burnt face of her father with a ''Pears to me dat young gentleum looks like missus'' family. The day after her father''s return, Alice Wilde sat down to try her new "You ain''t a little girl any longer, Alice Wilde, and I guess yer man shall never marry you, Alice Wilde." away, too, you know, and I shall have no one but good old Pallas." One day, about the time of his expected return, Ben had gone for Alice, Miss Alice, it looked like de judgment-day, when we sailed down mind; but when Alice looked at her anxiously she turned her eyes away, "What does that childish, ignorant young thing know of love, Philip? retired for the night, David Wilde, Alice, Philip, and Virginia sat up,


id: 61523
title: The Moth Decides: A Novel
author: Jewell, Edward Alden
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  Hilda said she thought she could see just a tiny little bit of rouge. Louise''s unhappy affair with Richard, the Rev. Needham was pleased to Mrs. Needham had the good sense to wire back that Louise was all right, and Louise''s heart be a second time broken, there flashed, for Hilda, "I told Marjie we made a practice of getting up at seven," said Mrs. Needham a little anxiously. "Yes--things like that." And then he confessed with a nervous little "How do you mean it wasn''t fair, Aunt Marjie?" demanded little Hilda, little pang for just a moment, Louise thought she couldn''t endure his merely Louise''s little sister; all at once she became _Hilda_, a "Yes, Leslie''s the best swimmer on the Point," said Hilda proudly. The Rev. and Mrs. Needham, having gone on into the cottage living room, "Do I look all right, Lou?" asked Hilda, much as Louise had put the


