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| Lake Superior in Michigans Iron country 1800's
following with his
family a few months later. That spring, where is now Marquette, there was
no sign of a human habitation, save one or two Indian huts and a small log
warehouse belonging to the Jackson Iron Company.
Your narrator, then a boy of nineteen, had landed on the beach a few
weeks before Mr. Harlow's arrival. I had made one ineffectual attempt,
shortly after the first excitement over the discoveries of copper in 1845, to
go up to Lake Superior, which had gained a great hold on the imagination
of the boys of that day.
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