The Great Water: A Documentary History Of Michigan

Features of The Great Water: A Documentary History of Michigan

Michigans location among the Great Lakes has positioned it at the crossroads of many worlds. Its first hunters arrived ten thousand years ago, its first farmers arrived about six thousand years after that, and three hundred years ago the French expanded into the territory. This book is a small sample of the words of Michigans people-a collection of stories, letters, diary entries, news reports, and other documents-that give personal insights into important aspects of Michigans history. Designed to provoke thought and discussion about Michigans past, the documents in this reader are expressions of past ideas, markers of change, and windows into the lives of the people who lived during well-known events in Michigan history.