. Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country . tions for the fur-trade as early as 286 PICTURESQUE AMERICA. 1688, but the constant warfare of the mihtary period interfered with the business. In1809 John Jacob Astor bought out the existing associations, and organized the AmericanFur Company, with a capital of two milHons. For forty years this company monopoHzedthe fur-trade, and Mackinac was the gayest and busiest post in the ch
. Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country . tions for the fur-trade as early as 286 PICTURESQUE AMERICA. 1688, but the constant warfare of the mihtary period interfered with the business. In1809 John Jacob Astor bought out the existing associations, and organized the AmericanFur Company, with a capital of two milHons. For forty years this company monopoHzedthe fur-trade, and Mackinac was the gayest and busiest post in the chain—the great cen-tral mart. Here were the supply-stores for the outgoing and incoming voyageurs, andthe warehouses for the goods brought from New York, as well as for the furs from theinterior. From here started the bateaitx on their long journey to the Northwest, andhere, once or twice a year, came the returned voyageiirs, spending their gains in a day,with the gay prodigality of their race, laughing, singing, and dancing with the prettyhalf-breed girls, and then away into the wilderness again. The old buildings of the FurCompany form a large portion of the present village of Mackinac. The warehouses are. Sugar-Loaf Rock—(East Side). MACKINAC. 287
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