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Pioneer Life in Oceana Co.
BY HARVEY TOWER.
The year 1850 found me in Barry county, the proud possessor of a wife and baby. Palling in with a gentleman who told me that Oceana was a good county for a man without a home, after a prospecting tour of some weeks, I concluded to seek my fortune there. But as it is nearly forty miles north of Grand Haven, beyond which there were no roads at that time but the beach of Lake Michigan, the best way to get there was a difficult question to decide,
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