. Mackinac Island. The wave-washed tourists' paradise of the unsalted seas . MACKINAC ISLAND. AN AMERICAN KINGDOM. How many readers of this little book are aware that an American king reigned on an island nearMackinac little more than thirty years ago? Probably not one in a hundred ever knew it; and yet, almostin sight of the ruins of Fort Holmes, forty-four miles away to the westward, lies Big Beaver Island, onwhich James Jesse Strang, one of- the early Mormons, proclaimed himself king, issued his Ioyal codeof laws, and for many years ruled with a rod of blood and iron, levying pirate tribute
. Mackinac Island. The wave-washed tourists' paradise of the unsalted seas . MACKINAC ISLAND. AN AMERICAN KINGDOM. How many readers of this little book are aware that an American king reigned on an island nearMackinac little more than thirty years ago? Probably not one in a hundred ever knew it; and yet, almostin sight of the ruins of Fort Holmes, forty-four miles away to the westward, lies Big Beaver Island, onwhich James Jesse Strang, one of- the early Mormons, proclaimed himself king, issued his Ioyal codeof laws, and for many years ruled with a rod of blood and iron, levying pirate tribute on the shippingand commerce both of the United States and Canada. He was a man of ability, having been a memberof the Michigan legislature and a contributor to various scientific and literary journals, and during allhis reign published as a sort of court journal a paper of decided merit. He and his horde of fanaticsand desperadoes committed innumerable murders and other outrages, seized vessels and made themselvesa terror to all this region; on one occasion cutting the h
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