All the Western States And Territories From the Alleghanies to the Pacific And
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So keenly is the robbery of these animals felt, that, in the failure of ordinary penalties to stop the perpetration of this crime, public opinion justifies the generally recognized "Frontier Law" that DEATH is to be meted out to horse thieves. MICHIGAN. THE discovery and early settlement of Michigan is due to the French whose motives were the prosecution of the fur trade, and, incidentally, the conversion of the Indians. To pro- mote the latter object, Father Sagard reached Lake Huron in 1632, ...seven years after the founding of Quebec, but the present site of the city of Detroit appears to have been visited somewhat earlier. The tract of ter- ritory now embraced in the state of Michigan, derives its name, it is said, from the Indian word, Michi-sawg-ye- gan, the meaning of which, in the Algonquin tongue, is, the Lake Country. The Huron tribe of Indians were the aboriginal inhabitants of Michi- gan. They were anciently very nu- merous, brave and powerful, and their settlements extended as far north as Lake Superior.
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