Old Mackinaw; Or, The Fortress of the Lakes and its Surroundings
A History of Mackinac, Indigenous Nations, Forts, Fur Trade, and the Great LakesBy W. P. Strickland
Length8h 31m
About this audiobook
Old Mackinaw; Or, The Fortress of the Lakes and its Surroundings is a historical and descriptive portrait of Mackinac Island and the strategic region surrounding the Straits of Mackinac. Combining antiquarian inquiry, travel narrative, topographical observation, and anecdotal history, W. P. Strickland presents the fort and its landscape as a meeting place of Indigenous, French, British, and American histories. The book's rhetoric is characteristic of nineteenth-century regional literature: picturesque in its treatment of scenery, patriotic in its attention to territorial struggle, and explanatory in its effort to make geography illuminate the past. Its interest lies equally in military memory, Great Lakes commerce, local tradition, and the sublime natural setting that made Mackinaw a celebrated destination. Strickland writes as a nineteenth-century author attentive to the ways travel, national expansion, and historical remembrance shaped American identity. His subject reflects the period's enthusiasm for documenting newly accessible landscapes and preserving the stories attached to frontier forts and waterways. By bringing together observation and inherited accounts, he transforms Mackinaw from a remote military outpost into a site of cultural and historical significance. The work thus belongs to the broader tradition of American guidebooks and regional histories that educated readers while inviting them to imagine the nation through its landscapes. This book will reward readers interested in Great Lakes history, early American travel writing, military geography, and the literary construction of the frontier. It offers a valuable period perspective on Mackinac's past and on the nineteenth-century desire to interpret natural scenery through memory, conflict, and national progress.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory
Length8 hrs 31 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 23, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Beginnings of New England
11CHAPTER IX.
2PREFACE.
12CHAPTER X.
3CHAPTER I.
13CHAPTER XI.
4CHAPTER II.
14CHAPTER XII.
5CHAPTER III.
15CHAPTER XIII.
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6CHAPTER IV.
16CHAPTER XIV. (pt. 1)
7CHAPTER V.
17CHAPTER XIV. (pt. 2)
8CHAPTER VI.
18CHAPTER XV.
9CHAPTER VII.
19THE END.
10CHAPTER VIII.
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