Word: michilimackinac
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...bridge. Since no cars are allowed on the island, you'll have to park your car at Mackinaw City. Those who do not want to cross the bridge can take one of the ferries from St. Ignace, just across the straits. Before you go, be sure to visit Colonial Michilimackinac, a reconstructed French fur-trading village and military outpost...
...celebrating King George III's 25th birthday, the Chippewas and Sacs in 1763 got together for some in tertribal bagataway - lacrosse,* in pale face language - outside Quebec's Fort Michilimackinac. Invited to watch the fun, the Fort's entire garrison gathered on the sidelines. Whereupon the braves dropped their bagataway sticks, grabbed their tomahawks, and staged one of the bloodiest massacres in Canadian history...
...they did not always please British commanders-notably General Thomas Gage, whose light infantry showed up poorly in comparison with the bush fighters, who had become known as "Rogers' Rangers." Gage became Rogers' lifelong enemy, and years later, when the New Hampshire man commanded the outpost at Michilimackinac on Lake Michigan, Gage was to bring a wholly unfounded charge of treason against...
...cracks beginning to show. Rogers was full of a scheme to find the Northwest Passage, will-o'-the-wisp short cut to the Orient; Parliament had a standing reward of ?20,000 to the lucky discoverer. By personality and pull Rogers got the post of Governor of Michilimackinac (now Mackinaw, Mich.), went off to his new adventure in high feather, taking Langdon along to paint his fill of Indians. Still-beauteous Elizabeth went too, but Langdon found his heart was now proof against her. Besides, he had a ward, Ann, a little-girl Galatea from the London slums...
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