Book/Printed Material Memorials of a half-century. General Collections copy 1
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Image 1 of General Collections copy 1- Contributor: Hubbard, Bela
- Date: 1887
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Image 2 of General Collections copy 1 2194 War Department RECEIVED July 25, 1887, LIBRARY. MEMORIALS OF A HALF-CENTURY BY BELA HUBBARD “I have been a great feast, and stolen the sraps.” Love's Labor Lost.— SHAKES. “...various, that the...- Contributor: Hubbard, Bela
- Date: 1887
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Image 3 of General Collections copy 1 F566 .-87 copy 2 COPYRIGHT BY G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS 1887 By transfer OCT 9 1915 Press of G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS New York- Contributor: Hubbard, Bela
- Date: 1887
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Image 4 of General Collections copy 1 “The notes of a single observer, even in a limited district, describing accurately its features, civil, natural and social, are of more interests, and often of more value, than the grander view...- Contributor: Hubbard, Bela
- Date: 1887
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Image 5 of General Collections copy 1 v PREFACE. War Department LIBRARY. The writer came to Michigan, a youth, in the spring of 1835, and settled in the town of Springwells, two miles from the western limits of Detroit,...- Contributor: Hubbard, Bela
- Date: 1887
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Image 6 of General Collections copy 1 vi The reflection that many of these memorial may possess a value, at least in the eyes of partial friends—alas! how few now—and may serve a purpose in the preservation of facts...- Contributor: Hubbard, Bela
- Date: 1887
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Image 7 of General Collections copy 1 L'ENVOL Go forth, little book, bark of destiny, freighted with the records and recollections of many desultory hours. Take thy chance upon the stream which sweeps all things along. Pleasing to the...- Contributor: Hubbard, Bela
- Date: 1887
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Image 8 of General Collections copy 1 ix CONTENTS. War Department LIBRARY. SCENERY AND DESCRIPTION. Scenery of the Lakes 1-18 Charlevoix, Description of Voyage, 2.—The Lake Plateaus, 3—The two Peninsulas, topography, 5.—Romance of Early Travel, 7.—The Ocean Lake, 9.—This...- Contributor: Hubbard, Bela
- Date: 1887
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Image 9 of General Collections copy 1 x French Habitants of the Detroit 107-154 Part I.—Introductory, 109.—The old Régime, 110.—Colonization, 113.—The Detroit, 115.—Land-titles and Farms, 116.—First Settlers, 117.—Agriculture, 119.—Farm Implements, 121.—Vehicles, 122.—Canadian Ponies, 124.—Orchards, 125.—Pear Trees, 127. Part II.—French...- Contributor: Hubbard, Bela
- Date: 1887
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Image 10 of General Collections copy 1 xi 227.—The Great Mound at River Rouge, 228.—Festival of the Dead, 231.—Cremation, 233.—Modern Occupation, 234.—Exploration of the Mound, 234.—A Vast Necropolis, 237.—Past and Present, 238. Part III—Ancient Garden-beds of Michigan, 241.—Earliest Notice,...- Contributor: Hubbard, Bela
- Date: 1887
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Image 11 of General Collections copy 1 xii 350.—Rodents, 353.—Ruminants, 356.—Animals Formerly Abounding, 359.—Trapping—The trade in Furs, 360. The Beaver, 363-367 Beaver-made Country, 362.—As an Engineer, 365.—His Social Qualities, 366. Trees,—Their Relations to us, Economic and Scientific 369-388 Our...- Contributor: Hubbard, Bela
- Date: 1887
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Image 12 of General Collections copy 1 xiii and Rainfall of the Seasons,—1835 to 1886, 454.—Season Fluctuations, Maximum and Minimum Years, 456.—Grouping of Years, 458.—Annual Fluctuations—Reign of Law, 459. Part III.—Periodical Changes in the Lake Levels, Rainfall, Temperature and...- Contributor: Hubbard, Bela
- Date: 1887
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Image 13 of General Collections copy 1 xiv 558.—Phenomenal Seasons, 561.—Dry Seasons, 562.—Effects of Drought—Fires—Frosts, 563.—A very Dry Year, 565.—Normal Seasons, 567.—A Typical Autumn, 568. The Ripening of the Year 573-581 Autumnal Changes, 575.—Progress—Tree Liveries, 576.—Contrasts—Shrub Tints, 579.—Nature as...- Contributor: Hubbard, Bela
- Date: 1887
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Image 14 of General Collections copy 1 xv ILLUSTRATIONS. SCENERY AND DESCRIPTION. PAGE. View on Detroit River from Old Knaggs House, Wind-mill Point, Springwells (looking up), 1837 Frontispiece. Old Knaggs House (author's early residence) 17 Sault Ste. Marie, in...- Contributor: Hubbard, Bela
- Date: 1887
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Image 15 of General Collections copy 1 xvi Pottery from Mounds, Wayne County 218 Diagram of Ancient Earthworks, Springwells 221 The Great Mound at River Rouge 230 Ancient Garden-beds, Grand River Valley 257 Ancient Garden-beds, St. Joseph River Valley...- Contributor: Hubbard, Bela
- Date: 1887
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Image 17 of General Collections copy 1 “Were we always to sail as I did then, with a serene sky in a most charming climate, and on water as clear as that of the purest fountain; were we sure...- Contributor: Hubbard, Bela
- Date: 1887
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Image 18 of General Collections copy 1 3 SCENERY OF THE LAKES War Department LIBRARY War Department Library From the great Appalachian chain—the mountain region that determines the course of the rivers which fall into the Atlantic on the...- Contributor: Hubbard, Bela
- Date: 1887
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Image 19 of General Collections copy 1 4 few feet only being the entire change of level which is occasioned by the extremes of the seasons or the most copious rains and thaws. The great American lakes may well...- Contributor: Hubbard, Bela
- Date: 1887
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Image 20 of General Collections copy 1 5 being 700 or 800 feet, and near Otsego Lake rising to 1100 feet above Lake Erie. From these water-sheds the surface descends by steppes, or inclines, uniformly to the margin of...- Contributor: Hubbard, Bela
- Date: 1887
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Image 21 of General Collections copy 1 6 the horizon, and the velvet-skirted lake reflects the light from the open prairie, or is faintly visible from the bosom of the glen. Such scenes are destitute of the majesty of...- Contributor: Hubbard, Bela
- Date: 1887
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Image 22 of General Collections copy 1 7 the first explorers if of that romantic character which belongs to a region imperfectly known, and which in the relations of these early voyageurs abounded in marvels. By them the lake...- Contributor: Hubbard, Bela
- Date: 1887
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Image 23 of General Collections copy 1 8 through vistas of openings, disclosing beyond inviting prospects. Again, huge walls of rock reared a threatening front, caverns yawned beneath, and lofty hills, rock-ribbed, rose beyond. They picked up on the...- Contributor: Hubbard, Bela
- Date: 1887
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Image 24 of General Collections copy 1 9 “The water,” writes one of the early journalizers, “was as pure and transparent as air, and my canoe seemed as if it hung suspended in that element. It was impossible to...- Contributor: Hubbard, Bela
- Date: 1887
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Image 25 of General Collections copy 1 10 to designate as the “everlasting hills,” but the power of the liquid element is so gradually extending its dominion, that these so-called “sure foundations” present but a feeble obstacle to its...- Contributor: Hubbard, Bela
- Date: 1887
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Image 26 of General Collections copy 1 11 that are so dangerous to stranded vessels, and that often overwhelm boats in their landing which had outlived, until that moment, the whole violence of the storm. The sublimity of this...- Contributor: Hubbard, Bela
- Date: 1887
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Image 27 of General Collections copy 1 12 clothed with fresh timber, such as dwarfed all that the Old World afforded. The straits—though its strong current might claim for it the name of river—varied in width from one to...- Contributor: Hubbard, Bela
- Date: 1887
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Image 28 of General Collections copy 1 13 little change. The main roads still ran along the banks, lined with the same kind of habitations, in most cases the very same, that were built there more than a century...- Contributor: Hubbard, Bela
- Date: 1887
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Image 29 of General Collections copy 1 14 passage between Grosse Isle and the main land on the west, the easterly channel and Lake Erie being shut from view by a wooded point on the Canada shore. The stream,...- Contributor: Hubbard, Bela
- Date: 1887
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Image 30 of General Collections copy 1 15 trees rear their heads, like great elms, or stand in groups upon the banks. Several windmills give animation to the picture, as their white arms sway in the breeze, that seldom...- Contributor: Hubbard, Bela
- Date: 1887
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Image 31 of General Collections copy 1 16 While the vernal beauty of this region of wide waters and boundless forests is so often dwelt upon, it does not appear that the impression of tameness or defect is produced...- Contributor: Hubbard, Bela
- Date: 1887
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Image 32 of General Collections copy 1 OLD KNAGGS HOUSE.—EARLY RESIDENCE OF THE AUTHOR.- Contributor: Hubbard, Bela
- Date: 1887
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Image 33 of General Collections copy 1 18 of the lesser lights of heaven, or the glories of cloud-land and of sunset, or to interrupt the imagination, when her “magical pinions spread wide” over a domain that from its...- Contributor: Hubbard, Bela
- Date: 1887
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Image 35 of General Collections copy 1 ” Father of lakes! “ thy waters bend Beyond the eagle's utmost view, When, throned in heaven, he sees thee send Back to the sky it world of blue. Boundless and deep,...- Contributor: Hubbard, Bela
- Date: 1887
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Image 36 of General Collections copy 1 21 LAKE SUPERIOR IN 1840.* * Read before the Detroit Pioneer Society, Jan., 1874. Among the pleasantest of all my reminiscences of travel is that of the exploration, in connection with the...- Contributor: Hubbard, Bela
- Date: 1887
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Image 37 of General Collections copy 1 22 was upon a soup of beans, with a most liberal supply of water, into which a piece of pork was dropped. A cake of hard-bread was allowed to each. The boats...- Contributor: Hubbard, Bela
- Date: 1887
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Image 38 of General Collections copy 1 23 shore of this great lake. At two or three points, transient fishing-camps might be met with. Else, all this region was wild and solitary almost as when, a century earlier, it...- Contributor: Hubbard, Bela
- Date: 1887
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Image 39 of General Collections copy 1 24 might manned and equipped, as a century ago, by a motley crew of half-breed voyageurs. The natural beauties and wildness of the island, its situation, enthroned at the apex of the...- Contributor: Hubbard, Bela
- Date: 1887
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Image 40 of General Collections copy 1 25 seldom wide enough to admit any but the smallest craft, and so intricate as to form a perfect labyrinth, where any but the practised mariner might wander long, “in endless mazes...- Contributor: Hubbard, Bela
- Date: 1887