In 1841 thirteen-year-old Libby and her family begin a new life on the shores of Lake Michigan where her father works as a surveyor for the Ottawa Indians and Libby is reunited with her Indian friend Fawn.
Surveys the history of Michigan, from the time of its first settlers through its industrial, political, and social development to current economic and environmental concerns. Gazetteer includes map, statistics, and other facts.
An orphan boy from Boston travels on an "orphan train" to Michigan, where he is adopted by a farmer and his wife, but they soon leave the farm for the copper mines of the Upper Peninsula.
Gus Carpenter, executive editor of the "Pine County Pilot" in Starvation Lake, Michigan, tries to put aside his mounting personal problems to investigate the death of Gracie McBride, a second cousin who had just returned to town after eighteen years only to die in what has been ruled a suicide.
When she sneaks away to visit her friend, a young girl living on the Michigan frontier is caught up in the forced evacuation of a group of Potawatomi Indians from their tribal lands in the 1840s.
