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5 comments about Petoskey In Vintage Postcards (MI) (Postcard History Series).

1. I would gladly tell anyone interested in the Petoskey area to read this book. Finally, someone has taken the time to write a decent history of this beautiful area. As a former resident, I feel that this author has done justice to my hometown.



2. The Devil is in the details. The author claims that an old Petoskey hotel had 800 rooms, more that twice the present number in the famed Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island. He shows a tourist steamer plying a river that never existed. He writes of a White Pine Trail through Bay View when the actual trail never comes within 90 miles of Petoskey. Our neighbor, Charlevoix, has a population of less than 3000, not the 8,500 claimed by the author. What good is detail when it is dead wrong?



3. This book in Arcadia's "Postcard History" series strikes new ground by covering the area of Petoskey, Harbor Springs, Bayview, and Michigan's "Boyne Country". It has a wealth of detail concerning the area's real and legendary ("Song of Hiawatha") Native heritage and development of tourism. Included are views of lost treasures such as the recently-destroyed old Petoskey high school, and several grand old hotels. Author C. S. Wright's caption paragraphs also provide a lot of detail on life in the first decades of the 20th Century. This book should provide great enjoyment to anyone interested in old postcards and Petoskey history.



4. I came here in the 60's and I'm not a historian but you would have to be blind to miss the mistakes in this book. Facts are facts and his are wrong. How is this history?



5. The writer, C.S. Wright, is the first to paint such an accurate portrait of Petoskey and the surrounding area. While there are a few typos and errors, it is to be expected when it its truly the first book to try and capture the feel of the area. The beauty of the ferry steamers plying the waters of the Inland Waterway, the growth of the area as a tourist destination, as well as the architecture and natural beauty of the Little Traverse Bay region is all chronicled in this publication. If nothing else, Petoskey in Vintage Postcards captures the spirit of one of Michigan's true gems.

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1 comments about The Pigeon River Country: A Michigan Forest.

1. This book covers a lot of topics.
   
   It's a history of the Pigeon River Country, located about 35 miles south of the top of the "mitt" of Michigan, country that has remained wild after logging in this area was completed in the early part of the last century. More recently drilling for oil in the The Pigeon also caused some of the most notorious environmental battles that ever took place between a state, the oil industry, and environmentalists. Three different court cases made it to the Michigan Supreme Court and those rulings had a large impact on environmental law related to drilling in wild natural areas.
   
   The book is also a trail guide, providing tables of fauna and flora that exist here. The Pigeon is the only woods east of the Mississippi that contains wild elk, which are pretty easy to track if you go in with a local or get some advice from the State's Dept. of Natural Resources officers who are stationed in the forest.
   
   The Pigeon also contains three world-class trout fishing rivers, two of which are also navigable by more experienced canoeists. There is a major hiking / mtn. biking trail that runs through it as well, providing day and overnight wilderness experiences.
   
   I've traveled all over the world, lived in CA twice and FL once, but I knew the Pigeon would draw me home to commune with the elk, coyotes, bears, the white pine and cedars, the Beech and Maple trees, and the bald eagle. The Pigeon is still a fairly wild place with many contiguous sections with neither roads or trails, allowing for a North Woods experience guaranteed to be people-free.
   
   Franz' passion for the Pigeon rings through truly. Sometimes the book gets a little long-winded about the beauty of rain drops on a leaf, but if you read this on the trail, you'd never consider entering this tract of land without this wonderful guide as your friend to a better understanding the Pigeon River Country.

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