item: #1 of 20 id: 22550 author: Strickland, W. P. (William Peter) title: Old Mackinaw; Or, The Fortress of the Lakes and its Surroundings date: None words: 84701 flesch: 64 summary: That it will be equally so by railroad, is evident, from the fact that Mackinaw city to Port Huron, and thence to Buffalo, need not exceed four hundred miles, while that from Chicago to Buffalo, in a direct line is five hundred and fifteen miles. Thus the proprietor proposes to anticipate, by avoiding the errors of older cities, the wants of Mackinaw city in perpetuity, and free forever its citizens from taxation for any grounds required for the public good. keywords: american; atlantic; bay; canada; chicago; cities; city; co.; coal; commerce; company; copper; country; day; detroit; english; feet; fish; following; fort; good; grand; growth; half; huron; indians; interest; interior; iron; island; lake; lake michigan; lands; line; mackinaw; man; market; marquette; michigan; miles; mission; new; north; northern; northwest; number; peninsula; pine; place; point; population; portion; present; railroad; region; river; road; rock; shore; soil; south; state; straits; superior; timber; time; trade; united; value; vessels; war; water; west; western; white; world; year; york cache: 22550.txt plain text: 22550.txt item: #2 of 20 id: 23248 author: Catherwood, Mary Hartwell title: The Black Feather From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 date: None words: 3368 flesch: 85 summary: It is Charle' Charette who leads on the trail or breaks a road where there is none, and carries the heaviest pack of furs, and pulls men out of the water when they are drowning; it is Charle' Charette who can best endure fasting when the rations run low, and can hunt and bring in meat when other voyageurs lie exhausted about the camp-fire. Fort Mackinac was glittering white on the heights above them, and half-way up a paved ascent leading to the sally-port sauntered 'Tite Laboise. keywords: charle; feather; laboise; mackinac; man; tite cache: 23248.txt plain text: 23248.txt item: #3 of 20 id: 29057 author: Crapo, Henry Howland title: Address delivered by Hon. Henry H. Crapo, Governor of Michigan, before the Central Michigan Agricultural Society, at their Sheep-shearing Exhibition held at the Agricultural College Farm, on Thursday, May 24th, 1866 date: None words: 9518 flesch: 57 summary: This wool is required to make a fabric of lustrous appearance for imitations of Alapaca, and for a supply of which our manufacturers now depend mostly on foreign countries The price of combing wool has been for some time increasing rapidly, in comparison with other wool, in consequence of its consumption gaining upon its growth. And this is a fact worthy the serious consideration of farmers, and certainly a strong argument in favor of the more general breeding of long wool sheep. keywords: fact; farmers; knowledge; market; michigan; price; sheep; state; subject; time; wool cache: 29057.txt plain text: 29057.txt item: #4 of 20 id: 29608 author: Kidd, James Harvey title: Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman With Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War date: None words: 121799 flesch: 69 summary: But Baltimore was as peaceful as Pittsburg, and no mob gathered to contest the right of Michigan men to invade southern soil. To Colonel Sawyer with the Vermont and Michigan men fell the irksome duty of bringing up the rear of the column, the chief care being to keep up the pace, not losing sight of those in front, of which for a good part of the night there was much danger. keywords: advance; army; attack; august; battery; battle; brigade; camp; captain; cavalry; cavalry brigade; charge; colonel; column; command; confederate; corporal; corps; country; custer; day; days; division; duty; enemy; entire; field; fifth; flank; force; general; george; gettysburg; good; gregg; ground; horses; house; infantry; july; june; kilpatrick; lee; left; lieutenant; line; little; major; man; march; men; merritt; michigan; michigan brigade; michigan cavalry; michigan men; michigan michigan; morning; new; north; officers; order; place; point; position; private; rear; regiment; right; river; road; second; sergeant; service; seventh; sheridan; sixth; staff; station; stuart; time; trevilian; troop; union; war; way; william; winchester; woods; wounded cache: 29608.txt plain text: 29608.txt item: #5 of 20 id: 32050 author: Gleason, Henry A. (Henry Allan) title: The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State date: None words: 64891 flesch: 81 summary: One species in Michigan, a marsh plant with heart-shape leaves and slender racemes of white flowers =Lizard's Tail, Saururus cernuus.= SALICACEAE, the Willow Family Trees or shrubs, with dioecious flowers in catkins. 1a. Tall shrub, with leaves broadest below or near the middle (early summer) =Wahoo, Evonymus atropurpureus.= STAPHYLEACEAE, the Bladder Nut Family Shrubs with opposite trifoliate leaves and small axillary clusters of white flowers in spring; sepals, petals, and stamens each 5; ovary 3-celled, ripening into a large inflated 3-celled pod. keywords: --2; --3; --4; --5; = aster; = bedstraw; = ericaceae=; = leguminosae=; = rosaceae=; = sunflower; = water; = willow; = wood; basal; base =; beneath; black; blue; bracts; branches; calyx; clusters; compound; compound leaves; corolla; cress; entire; erect; family; flowers; foliage; fruit; glabrous; grass; greenish; heads; herbs; high; involucre; lanceolate; leaf; leaflets; leaves; leaves sessile; linear; lobed; long; middle; oblong; ovary; ovate; petals; pink; plants; principal; pubescent; purple; racemes; red; regular; sepals; serrate; sessile; shape; short; shrubs; slender; small; smooth; solitary; species; spikes; spreading; spring; stamens; stem; summer; tall; teeth; terminal; toothed; united; violet; white; wild; yellow cache: 32050.txt plain text: 32050.txt item: #6 of 20 id: 33507 author: Wood, Norman Asa title: The Mammals of Washtenaw County, Michigan Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, No. 123 date: None words: 6704 flesch: 81 summary: We have records for Lodi Township, Ann Arbor, Webster Township, Ypsilanti, and Chelsea. We have records from 1883 to 1919, including Saline Township, Superior Township, Lyndon Township, Ann Arbor, Chelsea, and Bass Lake. keywords: ann; ann arbor; arbor; county; lake; lodi; michigan; near; records; settlers; species; township; winter cache: 33507.txt plain text: 33507.txt item: #7 of 20 id: 33648 author: Dice, Lee R. (Lee Raymond) title: The Mammals of Warren Woods, Berrien County, Michigan Occasional Paper of the Museum of Zoology, Number 86 date: None words: 5777 flesch: 81 summary: The mammal habitats found on the preserve may be listed as follows: _Natural habitats_ Aquatic habitat Buttonbush-swamp habitat Shore habitat Mud-bar herbage habitat Flood-plain forest habitat Beech-maple forest habitat Aerial habitat _Modified and artificial habitats_ Second-growth, forest and scrub habitat Cleared-ravine sedge habitat Cleared-upland rush habitat Cleared-upland sedge habitat Cleared-upland blue-grass habitat Cultivated field habitat Orchard habitat Edificarian habitat Several types of habitats are represented in the clearing: in a few of the cleared ravines a thick growth of sedges and iris occurs; on the higher ground small areas are dominated by rushes, other areas by sedges, while the greater part is covered by grass. keywords: adult; august; forest; habitat; july; mouse; vole; white; woods cache: 33648.txt plain text: 33648.txt item: #8 of 20 id: 33679 author: Beal, W. J. (William James) title: Seeds of Michigan Weeds date: None words: 20023 flesch: 80 summary: Amaranthus hybridus_ L. (_A. chlorostachys_). Hibiscus Trionum_ L. Seed brown, the surface dotted with numerous, ragged, light-colored pimples. keywords: achenes; apex; base; black; brown; clover; common; country; dark; end; europe; family; fig; flowers; grass; illustration; light; long; native; oblong; oval; page; reddish; seeds; sides; surface; vertical; weed; white; yellow cache: 33679.txt plain text: 33679.txt item: #9 of 20 id: 34769 author: Williams, Elizabeth Whitney title: A Child of the Sea; and Life Among the Mormons date: None words: 62126 flesch: 89 summary: I repeated many times what she said to me and promised to do the best I could. I met them several times afterward, and she told me how they crossed over to the north shore and kept along close to the shore, camping many times where the Indian and his wife set their net and caught all the fish they needed to eat, all the time teaching them to speak their language. keywords: beaver; boat; bob; brother; children; coming; day; family; father; good; harbor; home; house; indian; island; king; lake; life; light; man; mary; men; mormons; mother; mrs; people; place; saw; saying; shore; strang; time; white; wife; winter; years cache: 34769.txt plain text: 34769.txt item: #10 of 20 id: 35006 author: Robinson, William Laughlin title: An Experimental Translocation of the Eastern Timber Wolf date: None words: 15623 flesch: 73 summary: 24.--Straight-line distances between consecutive locations for (A) Wolves No. 11, 12, and 13, (B) Wolf No. 10. RESULTS Social Structure of the Translocated Wolves Wolves No. 11, 12, and 13 were captured in Minnesota within a mile (1.6 km) of each other, and No. 11 and 12 were taken in the same trap set 12 days apart; Wolf No. 10 was caught approximately 7.5 miles (12.1 km) keywords: animals; april; area; deer; fig; huron; july; lake; march; mech; michigan; miles; minnesota; mountain; movements; north; pack; release; sec; south; wolf; wolves cache: 35006.txt plain text: 35006.txt item: #11 of 20 id: 37753 author: Dice, Lee R. (Lee Raymond) title: Notes on the Mammals of Gogebic and Ontonagon Counties, Michigan, 1920 Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, Number 109 date: None words: 11984 flesch: 80 summary: The marginal forests are frequently dominated by hemlock, though often a wet hardwood forest occurs along the shores, and in a number of places along Gogebic Lake black ash swamps border the water. At the mouth of Merriweather Creek on Gogebic Lake signs were noted in a willow thicket, and muskrats were reported numerous in the region. keywords: bog; cisco; cisco lake; forest; girl; gogebic; gogebic lake; habitat; hardwood; hardwood forest; lake; lake region; point; region; water; wet cache: 37753.txt plain text: 37753.txt item: #12 of 20 id: 37871 author: Rankin, Carroll Watson title: Dandelion Cottage date: None words: 47962 flesch: 84 summary: Now don't you worry one bit, said comforting little Bettie. We'll just have to give it up, said grieved little Bettie. keywords: bettie; black; blossom; cottage; course; crane; dandelion; day; dinner; door; downing; eyes; girls; good; home; house; jean; laura; look; mabel; marjory; milligan; miss; mother; mrs; place; right; room; things; time; tucker cache: 37871.txt plain text: 37871.txt item: #13 of 20 id: 41394 author: Otis, Charles Herbert title: Michigan Trees: A Handbook of the Native and Most Important Introduced Species date: None words: 43454 flesch: 82 summary: you find first _a. Leaves simple_, and contrasted with this _aa. Trunk not fluted; catkins usually present in winter; lenticels elongated horizontally; large trees. keywords: bark; branches; branchlet; broad; brown; buds; dark; diameter; feet; flower; fruit; glabrous; gray; green; illustration; inches; leaf; leaves; light; pistillate; red; scales; slender; staminate; tree; trunk; twig; white; winter; yellow cache: 41394.txt plain text: 41394.txt item: #14 of 20 id: 44637 author: Fox, Frances Margaret title: Brother Billy date: None words: 23825 flesch: 93 summary: Neither of the children awoke as they were carried into the cottage and placed upon the couch; but they opened wondering eyes when Betty and Gerald and little Billy welcomed their Aunt Florence and their Uncle John, the passengers for whom Antoine had made that trip to St. Ignace. Great fun the big boys had then, teasing poor Billy, who begged, threatened, and jumped for the locket held just beyond his reach. keywords: antoine; aunt; bear; betty; big; billy; boy; children; florence; fort; gerald; good; home; little; look; phonse; right; scare; story; time cache: 44637.txt plain text: 44637.txt item: #15 of 20 id: 46269 author: Kelland, Clarence Budington title: Mark Tidd in Business date: None words: 52187 flesch: 98 summary: We had to have three hundred dollars, and there was old Mark Tidd with a way to do it. Anybody that finds Mark Tidd slighting a meal wants to report it, for it'll be one of the wonders of the world. keywords: 'em; bazar; business; dollars; folks; git; goin'; good; hain't; jehoshaphat; look; man; mark; mark tidd; money; mose; right; skip; sort; store; things; think; tidd; time; votes; way; wicksville cache: 46269.txt plain text: 46269.txt item: #16 of 20 id: 46586 author: Victor, Metta Victoria Fuller title: Alice Wilde: The Raftsman's Daughter. A Forest Romance date: None words: 48126 flesch: 85 summary: I think you do every thing beautifully, Mr. Moore, that you've been brought up to do, you know--but shooting deer--they don't do that in cities, do they? Not exactly in cities; but there are wild woods near enough New York yet for young men to have a chance at gaining that accomplishment. Broken-down speculators from the East came thither and renewed their fortunes; and enterprising young men began life with flattering prospects. keywords: alice; away; ben; child; dat; day; eyes; face; father; girl; good; hand; heart; home; house; long; look; love; man; masser; mill; moore; new; night; pallas; philip; raftsman; river; saturn; saw; set; thing; thought; time; virginia; wilde; yer; young cache: 46586.txt plain text: 46586.txt item: #17 of 20 id: 61523 author: Jewell, Edward Alden title: The Moth Decides: A Novel date: None words: 60737 flesch: 86 summary: Louise Needham was fundamentally an honest, an even straight-forward young person. But one with the enormous and stirring preoccupations of Louise Needham could hardly be expected to look on life with open eyes, or, so to say, analytically. keywords: alfred; anna; aunt; barry; cottage; course; day; eyes; fact; good; great; hand; heart; hilda; kind; leslie; life; look; louise; love; lynndal; man; marjie; marjory; matter; minister; miss; moment; morning; mrs; needham; new; o'donnell; point; rev; richard; right; sister; things; thought; time; way; whitcom cache: 61523.txt plain text: 61523.txt item: #18 of 20 id: 6436 author: Woolson, Constance Fenimore title: Castle Nowhere date: None words: 39788 flesch: 85 summary: 'Why do you go?' 'Do you want the plain truth, old man? 'Poor old man,' he said, 'how he must have worked and stolen and starved to keep her safe and warm in this far-away nest of his hidden in the fogs! keywords: boat; castle; child; day; days; emperor; eyes; face; father; fire; fog; fort; french; girl; good; half; hands; house; island; jacques; jarvis; jeannette; know; life; love; man; night; old; room; silver; thought; time; waring; water; way; white cache: 6436.txt plain text: 6436.txt item: #19 of 20 id: 6988 author: Blackbird, Andrew J. title: History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan A Grammar of Their Language, and Personal and Family History of the Author date: None words: 43029 flesch: 78 summary: Au-pe-tchi ke-zhaw-tay, it is very hot Ke-tchi no-din, it is blowing hard. We came to Mackinac Island in the fall of 1840, and there I met my father and all my relations, and great many Indians as they were about receiving their annual payment from the Government. keywords: baw; brother; children; chippewas; country; daw; day; father; gaw; good; indians; island; kaw; language; little; man; maw; michigan; naw; ottawas; people; pin; place; saw; school; spirit; state; tchi; thou; time; traverse; wau; wob; yaw; years; zhe cache: 6988.txt plain text: 6988.txt item: #20 of 20 id: 9949 author: Nowlin, William title: The Bark Covered House Or, Back In the Woods Again; Being a Graphic and Thrilling Description of Real Pioneer Life in the Wilderness of Michigan date: None words: 68442 flesch: 87 summary: It has been the belief of good men, in all ages of the world, that they were going to have a better and happier existence in the future after this life had passed away. If ever a boy put in good time I did then. keywords: brother; country; day; deer; detroit; family; father; feet; fire; good; ground; half; home; house; indian; land; left; life; like; log; man; men; michigan; mile; morning; mother; new; night; place; rifle; road; shot; state; thought; time; trees; water; way; west; woods; work; years cache: 9949.txt plain text: 9949.txt