Michigan
Catton Bruce
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Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: W. W. Norton And Co Inc.
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 1976
Edition: First Edition
Description: 204 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout. 'Michigan, Where The Age Of The Automobile Came To Its Fullest Flowering' ,'is A State That Grew Up In The Belief That Abundance Is Forever'. Michigan's Abundance Of Furs Brought The Early Trappers And Traders. An Abundance Of Forests Drew Lumberjacks Who Reduced Pines To Stumps And Sawdust. The State Held An Abundance Of Iron Ore And Copper And Developed New Means To Move Men And Goods At An Even Faster Pace.Finally, There Was The Abundance Of Technology Itself, Producing 'a Faith', 'not In The Goodness Of God But In The Endless Ingenuity Of Man'.
Publishers Description: Highlights important events and personalities in and enquiry into the almost legendary promise Michigan has offered explorers, settlers, and developers throughout its history.
ISBN: 0393055728
(135055)
