Identifier: magazineofamericv26stev (find matches)
Title: The magazine of American history with notes and queries
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910. ed. cn DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904. ed. cn Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923, ed. cn Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. ed. cn Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-1894 ed Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, comp
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Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes
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ters forthe rest of that century. The history of Mackinac may be properly—at least comprehensively—treated under three era-periods of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nine-teenth centuries. The first of these includes the discovery of the regionby the white man, the opening of traffic by the French and English withthe various tribes who inhabited or visited the Michilimackinac regionand rendezvoused frequently at the central island itself, and by theappearance there of Jesuit missionaries, who established mission stations,built churches, and diffused religious instruction and ceremonials amongsavages hitherto utterly ignorant of them, leaving as a historic legacy suchnames as those of Hennepin, La Salle, Marquette, Allouez, De Tonty, andothers. The second era, covering an entire century, is not only vastly broaderin duration but greatly diversified by successive and shifting French andEnglish dominations; by wars between the rulers and with the Indian THE FAIRY ISLE OF MACKINAC 23
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PICTURESQUE SUGAR LOAF ROCK, MACKINAC ISLAND. (From a recent photograph.) 24 THE FAIRY ISLE OF MACKINAC tribes ; by the famous and disastrously successful conspiracy of Pontiac ;by the transference of the Michilimackinac forts and military authorityfrom the southern mainland to the romantic island of this story ; by thebuilding there of the great post of Fort Mackinac ; by various treatiesbetween the hostile whites and savages; and finally by the lapsing of theisland under the authority of the American flag, as the result of a treatyof peace between Great Britain and the United States, in 1780, the dateat which the story of modern Mackinac may be regarded as beginning. The third era—that of the present century—less memorable for savagerythan for civilization, and conspicuously marked for warlike adventure andachievement only by the wars of 1812, 1814, is notable for the introduc-tion of Protestant schools and worship ; for the enterprise of John JacobAstor, in the origination and

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