A Picturesque Situation: Mackinac Before Photography, 1615-1860

by Brian Leigh Dunnigan

From the author of the award-winning Frontier Metropolis, a comprehensive visual history of the straits of Mackinac in pre-photographic images.

From the era of European exploration to the beginning of the Civil War, the Straits of Mackinac were a crucial link in the westward water transportation system of the United States. As the primary route to Lake Michigan and the Mississippi Valley, the Straits were a highway for the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814332145
• ISBN13: 9780814332146
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 5.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 9.3" x 11.5"