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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Pioneer Collections; Report Of The Pioneer Society Of The State Of Michigan Together With Reports Of County, Town, And District Pioneer Society (Volum

Pioneer Collections; Report Of The Pioneer Society Of The State Of Michigan Together With Reports Of County, Town, And District Pioneer Society (Volum

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General ReferenceGeneral World HistoryRegional: Midwest

ISBN10: 9354508057
ISBN13: 9789354508059
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Apr 20 2021
Pages: 714
Weight: 3.58
Height: 1.43 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Step into Michigan before the maps were finished, when memory travelled by letter and ledger. Lives and names, faithfully recorded. Pioneer Collections gathers a historical society report volume from the Pioneer Society of the State of Michigan, together with pioneer society proceedings and reports from county, town, and district groups. The result is an archival local history collection built from speeches, minutes, recollections, and community documentation: a textured view of Michigan pioneer settlers shaping schools, churches, roads, farms, and civic life across the Great Lakes frontier. Read it for the human scale of settlement, for the rhythm of meetings and commemorations, and for the way local pride becomes public record. For researchers, it stands as a sturdy genealogy research reference and family history sourcebook, rich in personal names, place names, and the connective tissue that links households to counties and townships. For history readers, it offers grounded county and township histories and frontier community records that illuminate 19th century Michigan in all its practical ambition. For collectors, it is a landmark of midwestern pioneer history: not a retrospective myth, but contemporary testimony preserved in print, essential to understanding how regional identity was made and recorded. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure, and a reliable gateway into Michigan genealogy records and the lived past they contain.

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