Books or maps

[Planet1mars]

Ok i have gotten a few e-mails about what books i have read or maps... so what ill do is post books i have read, or presently reading, i dont mind shareing books that are good read, i just like to know if it helps anyone that goes and gets them.. but if anyone will please post books or srticles they read as well...


for people in oakland county area, i just got a book called... historic michigan. By Fuller


pretty good read has diffrent citys and a small history not sure of the date but has to be before 1950 becuse of the last stamp in here LOL, but everyone should enjoy it talks about indians and settelers as well as first white people born here, has a few picks in it..

the next one i got this week was potawatomi tears and petticoat pioneers by Massie..


this is also a great book on history has stuff about jesuits missonarys and a small map where they all where, i highly recommend this for research it surprised me, i wante to learn more on how people lived and how they delt with indians wriiten in 1992... the back of the book has a lot places where resaeched was donw which helped me check out new books and my direction what i wanted to go... it talked about weddings in the 1700s and a few locations where they were held... I swear after a small reading i want to hunt belle isle really bad, but cant due to high crime and no jobs...Oh this book also tells you about a creek and how the old miners hunted gold it talks about the lost douglas mined... it may have a few clues who knows im still reading it



Please post what you have read if you will.. my next book copper trails and iron rails and voyages in exploring michigan

 

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[Scott (Mich)]

About Belle Island - I remember reading, on one of the forums, not sure which one, of some people that have hunted it and do hunt it regularly. If I can locate it again I will let you know. I do not think it was on these Tnet forums.

Happy Hunting,

Scott (MI)

 

[Planet1mars]

thanks im intrested on belle island. i just hear a lot of stuff that goes on and i drove there a few years ago but i got harrased a liitle by some gang to buy drugs from them i had to get the heck out becuse i didnt want my daughter seeing that garbage going on

 

[Sandman]

I have hunted Belle Isle in the past and it is full of silver. One of the clubs, Michigan Treasure Hunters will stage a hunt there occasionally and there is safety in numbers. Right now I wouldn't go unless I had a body guard with a AK-47. Even when I hunted there in the seventies I had the police tell me to not go into the woods around the canals because of the homeless people. I have pictures of the canals being full of canoes bank to bank.

 

[Planet1mars]

i would like to find area that safe in detroit

 

[Mich. Wolverine]

Here are a few great books to read about Michigan and the Great Lakes region:
Travels and adventures in Canada and the Indian territories between the years 1760-1776. This is the journal of Alexander Henry and what an amazing journey he had. You can read this on google books.

Narrative journal of travels through the northwestern regions of the U.S. This book is about the expedition of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft and Governor Cass. in the Great Lakes. This is a very good book it starts in Detroit and the trip up to Mackinaw and beyond. You can read this on google books.

Journal of Peter Esprit Raddisson. This book is about his life in the Great Lakes region in the 1660's. It gives great insight into early European life in Indian territory. It is a very tough read to start out because they use f's in place of s's, so it takes getting use to but it's well worth it. By the way if you don't know french when you see the word "castor" it means beaver.(I had to look it up because I don't know french). There is some very graphic stuff in this book, just so you know. This is on google books.

This is a website that has books you can read. Go to Wisconsin Historical Society website click on reseach at the top. On the next page click on Turning points then click on early explorers,traders and settlers. that will get you there. You can go into arrival of the first Europeans or the french fur trade. There is alot of stuff about the Great Lakes and some of the books are written like the raddisson book. Its a very good site.

Mark there is alot of stuff about Mackinaw and the surrounding area. Hope you enjoy them as much as I did.


Wolverine.

 

[mpostma]

Thank you, Wolverine! I will check it out.

I just picked up a book at the Made in Michigan store in Lansing last week. It's a listing and map of hisoric sites all the way around Lake Michigan. Has a map pocket in the back of the book with a great map to go with it.

Good Luck all,
Mark

 

[SaginawIan]

Like Sandman said, Belle Isle is dangerous - not worth it - there are safer places in Detroit. For instance, along Woodward near the FOX (among other places)- they regularly tear up roads every single year. I just drool to see those brick roads being peeled back with fresh dirt roads underneath in front of those victorian mansions - amazing site to see. I had season tickets to the Redwings and drove down there at least once a week - I'd pay attention to where the orange barrels were. You can score a pouchfull of old coins from one block of those easily, I've done it. Go at daybreak in late fall or early spring(little cold weather keeps the rif raff away). The dangerous folk are just going to bed and won't bother you. Plus, as long as you stay within like 2 blocks of woodward - in sight of your car, you should be fine.

 

[Urban Grund]

I spent many of years visiting Belle Isle. You just have to stay off the Island during the Summer months. The Winter Months are the best times to walk around & explore. Too cold for thugs to hang outside of their cars & party. When the Deer were on the Island, I use to feed them & the Ducks corn during the Winter months. It's a shame they got rid of the Deer. That's when I stopped going!

 

[Planet1mars]

today im off to belle isle.... im going to explore it and just check it out

 

[Planet1mars]

i cant beleave how many homeless people i seen today. i feel so bad for them but i had to thank the good lord that i have a heated place to live and that my daughter dont freeze.. i wish there was a way i could help..

 

[Giant056]

i cant beleave how many homeless people i seen today. i feel so bad for them but i had to thank the good lord that i have a heated place to live and that my daughter dont freeze.. i wish there was a way i could help..

The last woods that I hunted (Jan. 7th), there was a homeless guy that had made a tent from what looked like tarps. I seen fresh tracks in the area and I figured there was someone staying there, so I asked if anyone was home and he poked his head out. We talked for a while about how he couldn't stand being at the mission because of the rules. I asked him if he was staying warm in there and he said no problem. At that time it was probably 25 F, but not windy. He asked me if I was going to turn him in and I said no. I hope that he was smart enough to get out of there cause the weather has been brutal ever since. That 25 degree weather is a whole lot different than all them single digit temps.

 

[Planet1mars]

have to thank god, i have my family to help me, in my time of need. i havent worked in 3 years becuse of my back,, man i be right with them

 

[SaginawIan]

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Police find man's body on Belle Isle
George Hunter / The Detroit News

DETROIT -- Police are trying to determine the identity of a man whose body was found near the Detroit Yacht Club on Belle Isle today with two bullet wounds to the head.

"An employee of the Yacht Club made the discovery about 10 a.m. this morning," Officer Leon Rahmaan said. "The body was found not far from the club."

Investigators have not determined the age of the victim; nor do they know how long his body laid near the Yacht Club on Lakeside Drive before it was discovered.


Anyone with information is asked to call the Detroit Police Homicide Section at (313) 596-2260.

 

[Planet1mars]

i made it back home alive

 

[Urban Grund]

i made it back home alive

Good!

 

[oneeye]

We have some old city areas here in Muskegon that I wouldn't visit in broad daylight with armed guards. There is no treasure anywhere worth your life.
Dan