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Preface:

“To help pass the long, dreary evenings of a Mackinac winter, was compiled the following “Annals”:

Besides information derived from official sources, including the records on file in the Fort, the old books of the American Fur-Company, the records of the Village and County of Mackinac, and the churches of Mackinac and St Ignace; old documents in the hands of private individuals have been also examined and much matter obtained which it is believed has never before been in print. …

With some few exceptions, there are records for the years back to 1712.

There are none for the years prior to 1695.

At the last moment, much matter of a dry, statistical nature, derived form old records, and originally intended to be incorporated in this book, has been omitted, and matter which it is thought will be more acceptable to the general reader substituted.

The Legends of “Osseo,” and “Lover’s Leap” are from Schoolcraft’s “Hiawatha Legends”, nearly all of the substituted matter has, however, been taken from that very valuable work, “Chicago Antiquities” by Henry H. Hurlbut, esq. of Chicago, by permission in each instance.”

D. H. Kelton April 1882

• Michilimackinac: Osseo or The Son of the Evening Star
• Early Michigan
• National Park
• The Legend of Lover's Leap
• Historical Events
• Names of Western Lakes and Rivers
• The American Fur-Company
• Priests
• Married at Michilimackinac
• French and British Officers
• American Officers
• Fort Mackinac
• Skull Cave and Cemeteries
• The Legend of Robertson's Folly

114 pages.  Reprinted 1992.