Early Mackinac A sketch, historical and descriptive . low and the littleisland seemed to overflow with human life. Theseexciting times would last for six or eight weeks. Then would follow the quiet, uneventful, and tosome, dreary days, yet to most, days that passedhappily. ^ 1 Mrs. H. S. Baird. whose reminiscences of Mackinac werepublished in a Green Bay newspaper, 1882. Tliey are preservedin the Wisconsin Historical Collections^ vol. 9. Mr. Gur-don Hubbard, identified with the business of the island in thoseearly days, and acquainted with all its families, says of thislady, in his autobiograp
Early Mackinac A sketch, historical and descriptive . low and the littleisland seemed to overflow with human life. Theseexciting times would last for six or eight weeks. Then would follow the quiet, uneventful, and tosome, dreary days, yet to most, days that passedhappily. ^ 1 Mrs. H. S. Baird. whose reminiscences of Mackinac werepublished in a Green Bay newspaper, 1882. Tliey are preservedin the Wisconsin Historical Collections^ vol. 9. Mr. Gur-don Hubbard, identified with the business of the island in thoseearly days, and acquainted with all its families, says of thislady, in his autobiography (1802-1880) that she was highlyeducated and was considered the belle of Mackinaw, 66 EARLY MACKINAC It is interesting to find the following comment onMackinac written by a visitor in the early periodnow spoken of, and to note his warm appreciationof the island then, and his prediction concerning itsfutnre: Mackinaw is really worth seeing. I thinkit by no means improbable that it will become a placeof fashionable resort for the snmmer. There is no. INDIAN WIGWAM. finer snmmer climate in the world. The purest,sweetest air, lake scenery in all its aged and grandmagnificence and the purest water. . No flies andno mosquitoes, nothing to annoy, but every variety forthe eyes, the taste and the imagination. ^ 1 Col. McKenney in 1826 — joint Commissioner with Gov-ernor Cass in negotiating with the Indians. CHAPTER V The year 1812 brought our second war with themother couiitrj. In it our little island played a ])art,and indeed it may be said to have opened the very first scene of the war Avas enacted two governments had been nnder strained rela-tions for some time before, and on the 19th of June,of that year, the state of war was declared by Presi-dent Madison. It was a mystery at the time, andsomething which excited clamor and, in the frenzyof the hour, even insinnations of treachery againsthigh officials at Washington, that the English com-manders in Canada knew
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