Augustus C. Schooley, Among the Wolverines

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This pamphlet brings together a series of letters originally published anonymously in the Chicago Price Current. They chronicle the writer's travels through Michigan's towns and cities by the Michigan Central Railroad, water transportation and coach. Schooley emphasizes the growth and financial development of these burgeoning communities in the late 1860s. He discusses each town's local attractions, newspapers, educational and religious facilities, fiscal health, sources of wealth retailing and distribution of goods, and agricultural production.

Sources Library of Congress. Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820-1910. [database on-line] Washington: Library of Congress, 1999. Schooley, Augustus C. Among the Wolverines: A Series of Letters. Chicago: Chicago Printers' Co-operative Association, 1869.

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