The Saginaw Trail led from the frontier town of Detroit into the wilderness, weaving through towering trees and swamps to distant Native American villages. Presenting a forbidding landscape that was also a settlers’ paradise, the road promised great riches in natural resources like lumber and agriculture, and a future of wheeled vehicles that would make Michigan the center of a global industry. Leslie Pielack tells the story of the ancient path that transformed early Michigan and of the people whose lives intertwined with the iconic road.
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Story of Elizabeth Denison Forth, Pontiac’s first black woman landowner.
Reprinted 2022 with a foreword by DeWitt S. Dykes, Jr.
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The life and letters of Major General Israel B. Richardson.
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