In the 'Land of Hiawatha'

Conservation and Literary Sociability in Northern Michigan

Camden Burd - Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Rochester

I cannot look upon its swift rushing waters and darkly fringed forests' shores, without feeling a transcendent happiness, tinged with a sense of awe and supreme nature love for this famous river.

little Hiawatha killed the red deer

not a whit less wild and solitary than it was in the days of 'Hiawatha'

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