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Ambrose Bierce gives us another view of the strange events possible in the mind of a man under great stress. Listen to this great story and let your mind paint a picture from its words.

Hundreds of men left the Saginaw Valley to fight for the Union. Ambrose Bierce describes the experiences of too many. As you look at the silent stones on the burial plots, remember the truth of this great piece of writing.

Stewart Edward White's book, the Riverman, is filled with tales of a time when huge logs rode on America's rivers as they made their way to the sawmills that would determine their fate. Millions of dollars were made and spent in the boom towns that waited for this 'green gold' . Listen to this short tale of how one smart logger 'beat the houser' and stayed ahead of the game.

Mrs. Jameson wrote many books in the 1830's. She was a fine writer and thinker dealing with feminism, travel and individual freedom. Her book Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada is filled with interesting detail of life and history of that nation... 

Here are all the scenes those of us who grew up on the Great Lakes will see so much later. Listen to what it was like one hundred and sixty years ago.

This story was published in the July 1924 Michigan History Magazine.