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| Lake Superior in Michigans Iron country 1800's
Marquette, in 1851-3, consisted of a few houses, a stumpy road winding
along the lake shore ; a forge which burned up after impoverishing its first
owners; a trail westward, just passable for wagons, leading to another forge
(still more unfortunate in that it did not burn), and to the developed iron
hills beyond, with two or three hundred people uncertain of the future,—
they had fallen into the march of the century and were building better than
they knew.
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