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.