History of Michigan

By Moore, Charles

Subjects: Biography, History

Description: Dunbar and May found Fuller’s history, “…despite its age, still valuable on the opening of the interior of southern Michigan and the changes by the 1830s”. Willis F. Dunbar and George S. May, Michigan: A History of the Wolverine State, Eerdmans 1995. Vol 1 Chapter headings, with some sub-headings, include: -The Mound Builders, the Garden Beds, and the Ancient Miners Indian origins, migrations and battles, A century of conflict along the Detroit and St. Clair Rivers, builders of the Ohio Mounds, Michigan Indian mounds, The Garden Beds of Western Michigan, Copper used by the Indians, Ancient Miners of Lake Superior, The Ontonagon Copper Boulder, Removal of the Copper Boulder to Washington. -Indian Folk-Lore attaching to Michigan Localities Indian Folk-Lore Attaching to Michigan Localities, The fairy Island of Mackinac, Indian fables relating to Mackinac, The Story of Mashquashakwong, A Chippewa Legend of Sault Saint Marie, The Pictured Rocks, The veneration of animals. -Champlain and early French Explorations Explorations of Cartier, conflict between the Hurons and the Iroquois, Attempts to find the Northwest Passage, Stephen Brule, John Nicolet, Nicolet’s voyage through the Straits of Mackinac. -The Explorers of Lake Superior Raymbault and Jogues at St. Mary’s Falls, Radisson and Groseilliers, founders of the Hudson Bay Company, The real discoverers of the Mississippi River. -Missionaries and Missions Father Rene Menard, The Ottawa Mission, Father Claude Jean Allouez, Father James Marquette, Marquette and Joliet discover the Mississippi River, Marquette founds the Illinois Mission. -Louis XIV and New France Louis XIV and New France; Proclamation at Sault Saint Marie and La Salle’s Voyage, St. Simon’s memoirs, Talon, the Intendant, St. Lusson takes possession of the Northwest, La Salle, The building of the Griffon, Father Louis Hennepin, Tonty of the Iron-Hand, The first and last voyage of the Griffon, The conflict between France and England -Founding of Detroit Du Lhut in the Detroit region, Cadillac, Michilimackinac, Count Pontchartrain, Alphonse de Tonty, The Fox War, Governors of Detroit. -English gain possession of the Northwest English advances from Virginia, Braddock expedition, George Washington and Henry Gladwin, Rogers receives the surrender at Detroit, career of Robert Rogers, Sir William Johnson and Major Gladwin at Detroit, Pontiac Conspiracy, Fort Sandusky, Fort Miami, Fort St. Joseph, massacre at Michilimackinac, Battle of Bloody Run, Pontiac raises the siege of Detroit. -Carver’s Travels Rogers and Sinclair at Michilimackinac, Jonathan Carver, Carver at the Falls of St. Anthony, Lord Shelbourne’s colonial policy, The Quebec Act, Patrick Sinclair. -Beginnings of the Revolution in the West Henry Hamilton, Lieutenant Governor at Detroit, Daniel Boone, The Girtys, The Northwest tribes during the Revolution, George Rogers Clark, The capture of Vincennes, Major Arent Schuyler de Peyster, Charles de Langlade, Fort Lernault. -Border Warfare during the Revolution Death of Sir William Johnson, Frederick Haldimand, Fort Lernault at Detroit, The Moravians , murder of Colonel Crawford. -Marking National Boundaries The Treaty of 1783 with England, The influence of the fur-trade on boundaries, Haldimand declines to surrender the Northwest Posts, Vessels on the Great Lakes, Lord Dorchester defines the British attitude. -American government in the Northwest Colonial claims to the Northwestern territory, Revolutionary veterans propose to settle the Ohio country, Gen. Rufus Putnam, The Ohio Company, The Ordinance of 1787, Governor Arthur St. Clair, Winthrop Sargent. -Michigan Posts surrendered by the British Indian treaties, Report of Capt. Gother Mann on Northwest Posts, The Harmar defeat, The St. Clair defeat , Gen. Anthony Wayne, The Battle of Fallen Timbers, The Jay Treaty, Detroit surrendered, Col. John Francis Hamtramck. -Michigan Becomes a Political Unit Congressional conspiracy to obtain Michigan lands, The County of Wayne, Governor William Hull, Judge Augustus Brevoort Woodward, Peter Audrain, Woodward’s plans of Detroit and Ypsilanti, Fugitive slaves from Canada, The Bank of Michigan, Conditions in Michigan Territory. -Michigan in the War of 1812 Sharing the fur-trade, Fort Malden, Tecumseh, General Hull, The invasion of Canada, The capture of Mackinac, General Brock, The surrender of Detroit, Gen. William Henry Harrison, The massacre of the River Rasin, Perry’s Victory and the Battle of the Thames. -Lewis Cass founds a Commonwealth Father Gabriel Richard, Rev. John Monteith, The University of Michigania, The Detroit Gazette, Cass expedition to Upper Michigan, founding of Ypsilanti, Saginaw region, Solomon Sibley. -Toledo War Greatest Michigan, Lucius Lyon, Stevens Thompson Mason, Admission into the Union, Isaac E. Crary, Slavery, Land speculation, Wild cat banking -Struggles of a Lusty Young State Michigan as a member of the Union, The Upper Peninsula, War vessels on the Great Lakes, The U. S. S. Michigan, The Mormon Colony, King Strang. -Rise and Decline of Fur Trade Indian trails, Indian commerce, The beaver, John Jacob Astor, Ramsey Crooks, Robert Stuart, Rix Robinson, Grand Rapids as an Indian trading-post. -Events leading to formation of Republican Party Lewis Cass as Minister to France, Lewis Cass as Presidential candidate, The Kentucky Raid, Zachariah Chandler. -Political Maneuvers Joseph Warren, Alpheus S. Williams, Formation of the Republican party, William A. Howard. -Michigan in the War of Succession -The Development of the Upper Peninsula Dr. Douglass Houghton, The Cliff Mine, Edwin J. Hulbert discovers the Calumet and Hecla vein, Alexander Agassiz, William Alvin Burt, The St. Mary’s Falls Ship Canal. -The University of Michigan President Henry Phillips Tappan, President Erastus Otis Haven, President James Burrell Angell. -Clearing the Forests Early sawmills, Lumbering on the Grand River, David Ward, Saginaw Valley Lumbermen, Francis Palms. -The Holland Immigration and the Beginning of Grand Rapids The new Pilgrims, Rev. Albertus C Van Raalte, Jannes Van de Luyster, The first settlers of Grand Rapids, Louis Campau, Bishop Frederick Baraga, Furniture industry.