Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Thomas Moran, Sanford Robinson Gifford and George Inness. The straits of Mackinac from the French forts to the fur trade and the war of 1812 - the fortress that controlled the lakes and everyone who fought for it. Strickland was a Methodist minister who wrote frontier history from the mission records. This edition binds 60 plates after Bingham, Bierstadt, Church and Moran, and restores five in-text illustrations in colour.