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Lake Superior in Michigans Iron country 1800's
The second time
I had better luck. I joined a party, under the lead of the late Robert J.
Graveract, which set out from Mackinac in April, 1849, on the old steamer,
"Tecumseh," with the intention of claiming and developing all the iron
mountains which had then been, or should subsequently be, discovered in
that region. At Sault Ste. Marie, we succeeded in crowding our large
Mackinac barge up the rapids, and after eight days' rowing, towing, poling
and sailing, we landed at what was then called Indian town, near the pres-
ent site of the freight station of the D., M. & M. R. R., in the city of Mar
quette.
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