Memorials of a half-century
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- Publication date
- 1887
- Topics
- Michigan, Michigan -- History -- 1837-
- Publisher
- New York, London, G.P. Putnam's sons
- Collection
- library_of_congress; americana
- Contributor
- The Library of Congress
- Language
- English
This collection of essays by a noted writer, explorer, and Detroit civic leader offers detailed descriptions of Michigan's geography, geology, and local history in a consciously crafted literary style. Hubbard discusses the natural history of Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, and Lake Huron; topographical and geological features of Michigan; a geological expedition to the salt springs of the Grand and Saginaw river valleys with the new state's geologist, Dr. Houghton (1837); local factors and the 1837-38 financial panic; and land speculation and settlement. In addition Hubbard writes about Michigan Indians and Indian antiquities; flora and fauna, animal behavior; climatology; and the world of Michigan's French-speaking inhabitants, especially Detroit habitants, rural farmers, and voyageurs (who paddled the waterways as guides, trappers, and tradesmen), comparing the life-styles of French speakers and Yankees. The book is heavily illustrated with sketches of Indian artifacts, landscapes, folk architecture, trees, and diagrams representing the Mound-Builders' ancient garden beds
- Addeddate
- 2009-01-12 19:33:48
- Call number
- 7291117
- Camera
- Canon 5D
- External-identifier
- urn:oclc:record:1048809867
- Foldoutcount
- 0
- Identifier
- memorialsofhalfc00hubb
- Identifier-ark
- ark:/13960/t3kw5pr1c
- Identifier-bib
- 00160991173
- Lccn
- 11021049
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- 0.0.14
- Openlibrary_edition
- OL16242754M
- Openlibrary_work
- OL5917173W
- Page_number_confidence
- 94.61
- Pages
- 616
- Possible copyright status
- NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
- Ppi
- 400
- Scandate
- 20090113121814
- Scanfactors
- 7
- Scanner
- scribe7.capitolhill.archive.org
- Scanningcenter
- capitolhill
- Full catalog record
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