From dust jacket notes: "When Michigan Was Young is the fascinating story of the drama and romance that was early Michigan. Author Ethel Rowan Fasquelle's ability to reconstruct history vividly in her mind and to set it down on paper in her warm and lively style make this book a constant reading pleasure. For the reader, this history is still story. Early Michigan is the scene of the adventures and exploits of such great heroes as Jaques Cartier, Samuel de Champlain, Jean Nicollet, Pere Marquette, and Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac. And over her vast wilderness France and England succeed each other in dizzy rotation for the alliance of the ever changing and unpredictable savage in their sprawling conflict for supremacy in the New World. It is the Scene of the fatal Pontiac Conspiracy which flared up along the western frontier from Wisconsin to Pennsylvania, and of the rush of fur trappers seeking out the wealth of her forests....When Michigan Was Young recreates the life of the frontier and the perilous times which filled Michigan's primeval forests, as well as a good deal of Indian fact and legend. It is a history that is sheer pleasure to read."