ARTICLES IN MICHIGAN PIONEER COLLECTION. Suitable for use in history classes of public schools. THE MOUND BUILDERS. The mound builders and their work in Michigan. The mound builders in Michigan.. The mound builders in Michigan. Ancient garden beds of Michigan... Mounds and mound builders of the Saginaw valley. The Indians of Michigan and the cession of their lands.. Henry Gladwin and the siege of Pontiac. History of the Grand Traverse region. The province of Michilimackinac..... The Jesuit missionaries of the 17th and 18th centuries.. MACKINAC. Letter from Capt. Etherington telling of the massacre at Mackinac.. 19 Marquette Point St. Ignace Old Mackinaw Mackinac 286667 631 633 352 354 355 198 The discovery of the long lost grave of Marquette. Edward Tiffin's opinion of Michigan in 1815. How the Upper Peninsula became a part of Michigan. The southern and western boundaries of Michigan. EARLY STATE HISTORY. Fifty years of growth in Michigan. History of Fort Gratiot Early history of Michigan The public domain, its surveys and surveyors. The patriotic war of 1839 on this frontier. Survey of the northwestern lakes The first trip by steam on Lake Superior. The great conspiracy (Against the M. C. Ry.). Driving the first stakes for the capitol at Lansing. The Detroit & Lake Superior Copper Co.'s smelting works. Marquette's journal of his first visit to the Mississippi. The Patriot war Anthony Wayne and the Battle of Fallen Timbers. The political campaign of 1840 The story of emancipation GOOD READINGS. An old time trip 9 108 Legends of Indian history in the Saginaw valley.. Incidents in the early history of the Saginaw valley.. A trip from Rome, N. Y., to Mackinaw in territorial days. THE FOUNDERS OF MICHIGAN. James B. Angell. We should cherish with the highest respect the memory of the founders of this State. Among them were many of the most intelligent and enterprising men and women of Ohio, New York, New England, and Virginia. The men who drafted the first constitution of the State were men of large views and broad statesmanship. The friends of the educational system of Michigan should be especially grateful to the authors of the constitutional article on education. Isaac E. Crary of Marshall, a graduate of Trinity College, Connecticut, drafted that article, after much consultation with Rev. John D. Pierce, a graduate of Brown University, who was afterwards the first Superintendent of Public Instruction in this State. Thanks to the wisdom of the fathers and to the generous love of education cherished by their successors, the school children of our day can see the path open to them through the district school and higher schools, to the normal schools, the agricultural college, the mining school, and the University, at moderate expense. No state is better provided than Michigan with facilities for every child to obtain an education which will fit him for any position in life. Do they miss me at home, do they miss me? To know that this moment some lov'd one When twilight approaches, the season And is there a chord in the music, And a chord in each heart that awaketh Regret at my wearisome stay? Do they set me a chair at the table, |