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• Frontier and pioneer life -- Michigan
• Michigan -- Lansing

• Pioneer recollections : semi-historic side lights on the early days of Lansing (Lansing, Mich. :, 1911), by Daniel S. Mevis and Earl W. De La Vergne (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Uppermost Canada: The Western District and the Detroit Frontier, 1800-1850 (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2001), by R. Alan Douglas
  • multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State
  • illustrated PDF files at Project MUSE
• Then Came May, by Georgia Hastings Hufford (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)
• True Stories of Pioneer Life (1924), by Mary C. Moulton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gazetteer of the State of Michigan, by John T. Blois (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)
• Pioneer Recollections: Semi-Historic Side Lights on the Early Days of Lansing, by Daniel Stafford Mevis (multiple formats with commentary at lc.gov)
• The John Askin papers... (Detroit library commission, 1928), by John Askin, Earl W. De La Vergne, Milo Milton Quaife, and Detroit Public Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Yesterday, a chronicle of early life in the West (The author, 1921), by Charles Edward Weller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Six months among Indians, wolves and other wild animals : in the forests of Allegan county, Mich., in the winter of 1839 and 1840. Interesting stories of forest life. The exploits of Tecumseh and other chiefs, their cruelty to captives. True Indian stories of the war of 1812-13 (The author, 1889), by Darius B. Cook (page images at HathiTrust)
• A new home--who'll follow? or, Glimpses of western life. (C. S. Francis;, 1840), by Caroline M. Kirkland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early days of the Lake Superior copper country. (D. I. Robinson, 1938), by Orrin W. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prize essays written by pupils of Michigan schools in the local history contest for 1920-21 ... (Michigan historical commission, 1922), by Michigan Historical Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old times. Reminiscences of the early days of Michigan. (Detroit, W. Graham's Steam Presses, 1876), by John Judson Bagley and Cass County Pioneer Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• The bark covered house, or, Back in the woods again : being a graphic and thrilling description of real pioneer life in the wilderness of Michigan. (Illustrated.) (Printed for the author, 1876), by William Nowlin and Earl W. De La Vergne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pioneerlivet i det store danske Settlement (Danish Luth. Publ. House, 1904), by August Rasmussen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Then came May (Dorrance & Co., 1950), by Georgia Hastings Hufford and Earl W. De La Vergne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes concerning the Kellogg's. (Battle Creek, Mich., 1927), by M. G. Kellogg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memories of my childhood, trip from Oslo to America and pioneering in Michigan in the late 1880's. ([Desmoines? Wash., 1954), by Anna Elise Ingeborg Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• The bark covered house, or, Back in the woods again : being a graphic and thrilling description of real pioneer life in the wilderness of Michigan. (Illustrated). (R. R. Donnelley & Sons co., 1937), by William Nowlin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pioneer recollections; semi-historic side lights on the early days of Lansing (Robert Smith printing company, 1911), by Daniel S. Mevis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Me-Won-I-Toc. (New York News Co., 1867), by Solon Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Six months among Indians (Avery Color Studios, 1983), by Darius B. Cook (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A brief autobiography ([s.n., 1939), by George Fred Knapp (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Bark Covered House, or Back in the Woods Again, by William Nowlin
  • multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov
  • Gutenberg text
• The bark covered house; or, Back in the woods again. (The Lakeside press, R.R. Donnelley & sons co., 1937), by William Nowlin and Milo Milton Quaife (page images at HathiTrust)
• The bark covered house (Dearborn Historical Commission, 1959), by William Nowlin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The White Islander (New York: The Century Co, 1900), by Mary Hartwell Catherwood (multiple formats at Indiana)
• New home-- who'll follow? (C. S. Francis;, 1839), by Caroline M. Kirkland, Henry Ludwig, Joseph H. Francis, Charles Stephen Francis, and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)

• A table in the wilderness. (Eerdmans, 1959), by Lulu J. Dickinson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Early Genesee county, Michigan. Accounts from the Michigan Pioneer Collections. (Flint Public Library, 1955) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sketches of pioneer life (G.S. Rowe?, 1935), by James Delos Rowe (page images at HathiTrust)

• Log cabin children (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1942), by Edith L. Johnson and Marion Downer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Where the turnpike starts (Macmillan, 1955), by Harriett H. Carr (page images at HathiTrust)

• Red Wing's white brother : a real story of a Michigan boy and his life with the Chippewas (Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1956), by Elisabeth Webster (page images at HathiTrust)

• Autobiographical notes (Schoolcraft, Mich., 1906), by E. Lakin Brown and Amelia Ada Brown (page images at HathiTrust)

• Michigan trailmakers (Ann Arbor, 1930), by Henry O. Severance (page images at HathiTrust)

• True tales of the pioneers (s.n., 1920), by Alle Mac and St. Joseph County Federation of Women's Clubs (Mich.) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• French settlements in St. Joseph County (Leader Press, 1911), by Ella S. Custard (page images at HathiTrust)

• Between the Iron and the Pine: A Biography of a Pioneer Family and a Pioneer Town, by Lewis Charles Reimann (page images at loc.gov)
• Between the iron and the pine : a biography of a pioneer family and a family town (Northwoods Pub., 1951), by Lewis C. Reimann (page images at HathiTrust)
• When pine was king. ([Ann Arbor, Mich., 1952), by Lewis Charles Reimann (page images at HathiTrust)

• A narrative of the captivity & sufferings of James Van Horne, who was nine months a prisoner by the Indians on the plains of Michigan. (L. B. Romaine, Weathercock House, 1957), by James Van Horne and Lawrence B. Romaine (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Lansing plan : a comprehensive city plan report for Lansing, Michigan (R. Smith Co., 1922), by Harland Bartholomew and Lansing (Mich.). City Plan Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Outdoor recreation, an inventory. (Lansing, 1962), by Tri-county Regional Planning Commission (Mich.) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Course of study in fine and industrial arts for the public schools of Lansing, Mich., grades 1 to 12, inclusive. (Authority of the Board of Education, 1928), by Lansing (Mich.). Board of Education (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Rapport du comité chargé par le Conseil d'agriculture, P.Q. de visiter l'Ecole d'agriculture de l'Etat de Michigan à Lansing, E.U. et l'Ecole d'agriculture d'Ontario à Guelph présenté à l'assemblée du 12 décembre 1883. (s.n., 1883), by Conseil de l'agriculture de la Province de Québec and Ontario Agricultural College (page images at HathiTrust)
• Réponse au rapport du comité chargé par le Conseil d'agriculture, P. Q., de visiter l'Ecole d'agriculture de l'état de Michigan à Lansing, E. U. et l'Ecole d'agriculture d'Ontario à Guelph pré senté à l'assemblée du 12 décembre et lancé devant le public avant d'avoir été discuté et approuvé (s.n., 1884), by Whip (page images at HathiTrust)

• An ordinance establishing airport zoning regulations for the Capital City Airport, Lansing, Michigan. Adopted Thursday, July 23, 1953, by the Joint Capital City Airport Zoning Board. Effective date of amendment, May 4, 1961. (Michigan Dept. of Aeronautics, 1961), by Joint Capital City Airport Zoning Board and Michigan. Dept. of Aeronautics (page images at HathiTrust)

• Merger studies, 1958 progress report : Planning Greater Lansing growth for order, adequacy, efficiency. (Chamber of Commerce of Greater Lansing, 1958), by Chamber of Commerce of Greater Lansing (page images at HathiTrust)

• Reconversion of the Barnes Mansion for use as a governor's residence : report to the Governor from the Michigan Society of Architects. (The Society?, 1948), by Michigan Society of Architects (page images at HathiTrust)

• Building and safety code. (The City, 1928), by Lansing (Mich.) (page images at HathiTrust)

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