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Author Lewis, Kenneth E

Title West to Far Michigan : Settling the Lower Peninsula, 1815-1860
Published East Lansing, MI : Michigan State University Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (536 pages)
Contents List of Figures; List of Tables; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; 1. Frontier Studies and Approach to Michigan's Past; 2. Michigan Before 1815: Prelude to American Settlement; 3. The Environmental Context of Colonization; 4. The Impact of Perception on Settlement; 5. The Transfer of Land; 6. The Settlers' Acquisition of Land; 7. Strategies for Settlement; 8. Michigan's Frontier Economy in 1845; 9. Population Expansion, Transportation, and Settlement Pattering on the Michigan Frontier, 1845-1860; 10. Long-Distance Transportation and External Trade
11. The Restructuring of Michigan Agriculture12. The Organization of Production and Marketing; 13. The Consolidation of Settlement and Transportation; 14. The Landscape of Settlement in Southern Michigan in 1860; 15. Epilogue; Appendices; Endnotes; Bibliography; Index
Summary West to Far Michigan is a study of the lower peninsula's occupation by agriculturalists, whose presence forever transformed the land and helped to create the modern state of Michigan. This is not simply a history of Michigan, but rather a work that focuses on why the state developed as it did. Although Michigan is seen today as an industrial state whose history is couched in terms of the fur trade and the international rivalry for the Great Lakes, agricultural settlement shaped its expansion. Using a model of agricultural colonization derived from comparative studies, Lewis exam
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-500) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Indians of North America -- Land tenure -- Michigan -- Lower Peninsula -- History -- 19th century
Agricultural colonies -- Michigan -- Lower Peninsula -- History -- 19th century
Land settlement patterns -- Michigan -- Lower Peninsula -- History -- 19th century
Land settlement -- Michigan -- Lower Peninsula -- History -- 19th century
Land tenure -- Michigan -- Lower Peninsula -- History -- 19th century
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
Agricultural colonies
Indians of North America -- Land tenure
Land settlement
Land settlement patterns
Land tenure
SUBJECT Michigan -- History -- 19th century
Lower Peninsula (Mich.) -- History -- 19th century
Subject Michigan
Michigan -- Lower Peninsula
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780870139345
0870139347