To be sure pioneer societies sprang up everywhere during the later years of the first generation, but they have published or preserved very little for us, 'historical societies, such as the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society have done much to perpetuate the memory of the pioneers, as have also a few nota ble periodicals, but the field is far too broad for such agencies. It seems clear that he who would investigate the lives of the pioneers must find the most Of his material between the covers of the quarto and folio county histories and nowhere else. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.