Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Elements of Civil Government of the State of Michigan
Settlements of Bush-rangers. Before the end of the seventeenth century the wandering bush-rangers made straggling and irregular settlements where fancy and trade directed or in places that would prevent the en-3 trance of the English into Michigan, which was the home of the beaver. The wandering Frenchmen often forgot all the restraints of civilized life when they escaped into this western wilderness. They took upon themselves the habits of the savages with whom they associated, often married Indian wives, and lived a listless, happy, careless life. Their settlements were of little moment in building up the country or Winning it for civilization, but the descendants of these bush-rangers, or the re tired watermen who had traversed with their canoes the western lakes and rivers, formed an element of no little importance in the early history of Michigan as an American province.
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