Download or read book Summer Resorts of the Mackinaw Region and Adjacent Localities written by James Alvin Van Fleet and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Summer Resorts of the Mackinaw Region and Adjacent Localities Classic Reprint written by J. A. Van Fleet and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Summer Resorts of the Mackinaw Region, and Adjacent Localities During our first winter on Mackinac Island we were three weeks, and very long weeks at that, without any intelligence from the outside world. We well remember how anxiously we awaited the first overland mail. Opera glasses were daily pointed across the straits Cheboyganward in search of some approaching mail carrier. Finally, some one, more enterprising in the use of his opera glass than his neighbors, discovered something on the ice some 15 miles away toward Cheboygan which might possibly be a mail carrier. The news went through the town like wildfire and in twenty minutes half the people on the Island were in the streets. The something was certainly approaching the Island. Within an hour it resolved itself into an Indian pony, a sleigh and a man, and everybody was fully convinced that the mail was actually coming. One fact, however, caused a good deal of anxiety. While the south channel between Bois Blanc and the mainland was frozen over there was no ice about the Island and grave fears were entertained for the safety of the approaching carrier. On and on he came, however, as if regardless of danger and more and more intense became the excitement among the people. When within a short distance of the open waters he turned his course, landed on Bois Blanc Island and came across in a boat very much to the relief of everybody. During our second winter on Mackinac Island we were seven weeks without a mail. The great difficulty in this case was in the fact that the straits were constantly full of floating ice yet did not freeze over until about the 20th of February. This time the waiting was much more tedious than before in short patience ceased entirely to be a virtue. Before the seven weeks came to an end the Mackinawians just about concluded that they could live without the rest of the world, if the rest of the world could live without them. The spell was broken this time by two half-breeds who for a liberal sum of money performed the perilous feat of crossing the straits and bringing the mail over. Crossing the straits in winter time was perilous under the most favorable circumstances. No one ever knew at just what moment he might set foot on some treacherous piece of ice which would let him down into the water. Many a poor fellow has thus found a watery grave when he least expected it. The Indians and half-breeds, however, were always ready to attempt a crossing, no matter how perilous such an attempt might be. If the crossing was to be made with a horse they were always armed with an ax and a rope. If the horse broke through the rope was at once placed about his neck and he was choked until he bloated and lay upon the surface of the water like a puff-ball, when he was easily drawn out. The Indians sometimes crossed on newly frozen ice, which was so thin that they could not stand upon it at all, by lying lengthwise upon a board or dog sleigh and being drawn over by their dogs. If the crossing was to be made on foot at a time when the ice was not thought to be reliable two men always went together. Taking a firm hold of the opposite ends of a long rope they proceeded on their journey. If one broke through the other pulled him out, if the other broke through the one pulled him out, and if both broke through together they pulled each other out and proceeded on their journey. To us this seemed a very practical illustration of the "you help me and I will help you" principle. We never felt strongly inclined however, to make any practical experiments in this direction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
Download or read book SUMMER RESORTS OF THE MACKINAW written by J. a. (James Alvin) Van Fleet and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Summer Resorts of the Mackinaw Region and Adjacent Localities written by J A Van Fleet and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Summer resorts of the mackinaw region written by James Alvin Van Fleet and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mackinac the Wonderful Isle Petoskey Traverse City and Other Northern Michigan Summer Resorts Classic Reprint written by Grand Rapids and Indiana Railro Company and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-05 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Mackinac, the Wonderful Isle, Petoskey, Traverse City and Other Northern Michigan Summer Resorts Inac island, fanned by the breezes and laved by the waters of the three greatest lakes of America - Superior, Michigan and Huron has the most equable, exhilarating and delightful climate of any spot in the north temperate zone. The island, situated at the confluence of the great lakes med, is about nine miles in circumference. Containing a little less than three thousand acres. Of this area one hundred and three acres are used for a military reserva tion, somewhat more is private property, and the remain der the United States, with a proper appreciation of its many attractions, has reserved for a National Park. The Wonderful Island, surrounded by the blue-green waters which separate the two pen insulas composing the State of Michigan, has all the beauties and advan tages of an ideal summer resort. This has been known for centuries, for the aboriginal inhabitants of the Peninsular State, and indeed the entire West, regarded the island as the especial home of the Great Spirit. It was as near an approximation to heaven as the Indian had ever realized. So imagery and metaphor have been exhausted in the vain attempt to describe its glories. It has been named The Wonderful Isle, The Queen of Enchantment, The Tourists' Paradise, Gem of the Straits, The Fairy Isle - indeed, it has almost as many pet names as it has had visitors, and their number is legion. The island, at its highest point, rises some three hundred feet above the waters of the Straits of Mackinac, hence, to craft, passing through that Gateway of the West, it is one of the most conspicuous objects in the horizon for a long distance. Indeed, it may be properly termed Nature's Statue of Liberty, watching the wealth and products of the great North west as they pass on their way to the sea-coast, for our own people or for other nations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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