Making of Michigan, 1820-60 A Pioneer Anthology

Name: Making of Michigan, 1820-60 A Pioneer Anthology
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ISBN: 9780814319192

ISBN-10: 081431919X

ISBN-13: 9780814319192

Edition: 1990

Authors: Justin L. Kestenbaum, Wayne State University Press Staff

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The Making of Michigan is a wide-ranging collection of primary accounts of life in Michigan during the pioneer period, the era from the 1820s to the outbreak of the Civil War. In this time of explosive growth, the state's population increased from 8,000 to 750,000. These emigrants brought the state into the union in 1837 and began to create a set of institutions and a way of life.Justin Kestenbaum draws on the rich documentary record left by those who sojourned in the state during this time and recorded their impressions. Not only pioneers but land speculators, missionaries, and sight-seers left valuable accounts of the Michigan landscape and its emerging society.Following a general…

Book details

Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication date: 5/31/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 422
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English