The late Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Bruce Catton is known to millions of readers for his absorbing works on the Civil War. In this book, he turns to his native Michigan to tell a story of what happened when a primitive wilderness changed into a bustling industrial center so fast that it was as if the old French explorer Etienne Brule "should step up to shake hands with Henry Ford."
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Yes! M!ch!gan!,
This review is from: Michigan: A History (States and the Nation) (Paperback)
Catton covers two centuries in 11 chapters and just under 200 pages. The book is literally crammed with information in a mishmash of military acquisitions, missionaries, Native American tribes (at least a dozen are mentioned), woods runners, capitalists and (of coarse) politicians. However, Catton makes good use of brevity: he does not waste print on the minutiae of strategic military maneuverings as so many historians do, but rather he carefully selects and explores the details of the social and technological events that shaped the territory, the state and the nation (the "open shop" lumber industry, federal land grant programs, the Toledo strip, "wildcat" banks and the Great Railroad Conspiracy). As historians (and Michiganders) go, Catton is a romantic, and even melodramatic at times, but never boring. This book is thoroughly enjoyable.
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Bruce Catton knows my Michigan,
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This review is from: Michigan: A History (States and the Nation) (Paperback)
I live in Ohio, but I was raised in Michigan. Reading this book once a year (as well as the MORNING TRAIN) reminds me of my place in the universe. If you want to know about Michigan, Bruce Catton delievers.
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A good history of Michigan,
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A good history of Michigan, but don't expect a lot of pictures.Not a complete history, and some things are glossed over. But still a very worthwhile read.
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MICHIGAN has never really had a present moment. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
railroad conspiracy, woods runners, copper country, lower peninsula Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lake Michigan, Lake Erie, Lake Superior, Great Lakes, New York, United States, Michigan Central, Detroit River, Grand Rapids, Black Hawk, Green Bay, Michigan Reader, Erie Canal, Lewis Cass, Major Rogers, New France, Bay City, Historic Michigan, L'Arbre Croche, Crazy Bill, Etienne Brulé, Fort Duquesne, Grand Haven, Henry Ford, Jackson County New!
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MICHIGAN has never really had a present moment. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
railroad conspiracy, woods runners, copper country, lower peninsula Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lake Michigan, Lake Erie, Lake Superior, Great Lakes, New York, United States, Michigan Central, Detroit River, Grand Rapids, Black Hawk, Green Bay, Michigan Reader, Erie Canal, Lewis Cass, Major Rogers, New France, Bay City, Historic Michigan, L'Arbre Croche, Crazy Bill, Etienne Brulé, Fort Duquesne, Grand Haven, Henry Ford, Jackson County New!
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- Democracy in America (Signet Classics) by Alexis de Tocqueville on page 148, page 195, and Back Matter
- Great Lakes by Rh Value Publishing on page 23, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville on page 148, page 195, and Back Matter
- Call It North Country: The Story of Upper Michigan (Great Lakes Books) by John Bartlow Martin in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Pontiac and the Indian Uprising (Great Lakes Books) by Howard Henry Peckham on page 42, and Back Matter
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- Travel Smart: Michigan by Stephen Jones in Front Matter
- Paradox Of Progress: Economic Change Individual Enterprise & Political by Martin J. Hershock in Back Matter
- Brothers Of The Heart: A Story Of The Old Northwest 18371838 by Joan W. Blos in Back Matter
- Monroe: The Early Years (MI) (Images of America) by Craig E. Hutchison in Back Matter
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