Wilmont Kreis
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The Bard
1703 or 1704???
The long march
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Who/What? Is Andrew?
The Raid
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St. Clair Flats
Tecumseh
Father Gabriel Richard
Woodward's plan for new Detroit
Seal of Detroit
Sacagawea's Child
Toussaint Charbonneau
Route of Lewis and Clark
Statue of Antoine Cadillac, Detroit
Lewis and Clark Journal
Book Five
Picnics
Hamtramck takes control of Detroit for America
Anthony Wayne
Battle of Saratoga
Brown's Tavern on Harsens Island
Chief Pontiac
The St. Clair Flats, Lake St. Clair
Voyageurs route west
Old Detroit seen from across the Detroit River
Niagara Falls
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Old Detroit seen from across the Detroit River
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The Maroon Bells
The walk to Longshot
The stack from hell
Sleeping Ariadne
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The most expensive route
THE HOOK
HEALTHCARE FINANCE FOR DUMMIES
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COMING SOON!
Old Citadel of Quebec
General Braddock
Forks of the Ohio River
Michigan Habitant Heritage
Vérendrye monument
Pierre Roy
Pontiac
Book Three: Peace and War
Detroit today
LaSalle's Boat: The Griffin
Replica of old Fort Michillimackinac today. Mackinac Bridge came later.
Antoine Cadillac
Charlesbourg, Quebec St. Charles de Bromee Cemetery Today
Book Five: The City in the Wilderness
Relations of the Jesuits
Jesuits in Quebec
Henri
The Allards Book Two: The Hunter
Opiates can ruin lives
Coming Next The Pain Doc
An old home near the Cass Corridor that gave me the inspiration for the Tower Light Mission.
Detroit Public Library, Main Branch
Department of Justice
Hilberry Theater on Wayne State University campus
A treasure on the Cass Corridor
From the Cass Corridor
The Corridor
Book Seven: The Witch
Book Eight: The Chief
Francois* Allard
Quebec City
Detroit Public Library, Main Branch
Driving force of New France - The beaver
Winter in Quebec
Madeleine de Roybon with the Filles de Roi
Les Filles de Roi
Artanne sur Indre: Church and Abbey
Artannes sur Indre
Filles de Roi in 1667
Here is an idealized painting of Les Filles du Roi arriving in Quebec.
Cliffs of Etretat, last view of France as Francois sails to the New World.
Charnel house and old plague cemetery, Rouen, Normandie, France.
Researching in Blacqueville
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Indian Wars and War or 1812December 28, 2014
As Detroit begins to prosper, it is interrupted by the Indian wars with Tecumseh and the War of 1812. The Indian twins, Michel and Lucien have lived with the Allards since the death of their father and the family is torn apart as Michel sides with the Americans and Michel with the Indians.
Gabriel RichardDecember 21, 2014
Father Gabriel Richard was undoubtedly the most revered man in the city, and one year after his arrival, the obstreperous Augustus Woodward was the most despised. Oddly enough, the two men got along famously and proceeded to make Detroit “arise from the ashes”. Woodward’s proposed plan of the new city can still be seen in the streets of Detroit today. In spring of 1807, Woodward visited many French citizens including Jacques Allard. His report to President Jefferson on these bizarre and enigmatic French habitants is classic and found in chapter 19 of the book.
Rebuilding DetroitDecember 17, 2014
Soon after the Detroit fire of 1805, four men arrived in Detroit Harbor. As they had left Washington before news of the disaster, they were shocked at what they found. All sent by President Jefferson, William Hull was to be Governor of the new Michigan Territory, Stanley Griswold, Secretary of the Territory, Fredrick Bates, Supreme Court Justice, and Augustus Woodward Chief Justice. Of the four disappointed men, Woodward would have by far the greatest effect on Cadillac’s old village.
Detroit BurnsDecember 14, 2014
Two years from their departure, Jacques and the three boys return to Detroit only to find it in ruins. They soon land and learn that one year ago a barn fire spread through the city leaving only one warehouse building standing within the city proper. Gabriel Richard, the French priest and spiritual leader of the city had been considering his return to France the night of the fire, but in the morning, examining the devastation, he deemed it a sign from God that he remain. Exploring the ashes, he remembered a verse he was obligated to memorized in the seminary, “Speramus meliora; resurget cineribus.” We hope for better things; it will arise from the ashes.” This phrase is now the motto of Detroit found on the city seal.
Sacagawea's ChildDecember 10, 2014
Reaching the large village of the Mandan Indians in October during a blinding snowstorm, Jacques and Drouillard find the inebriated Toussaint Charbonneau along with his Indian wife who is at that moment giving birth. One of the most outrageous characters from history, Toussaint makes this already interesting voyage much more so. His wife, Sacagawea who he claims to have won in a poker game, is more help to the voyage than her voyageur husband. She and her then newborn son, Jean-Baptiste are immortalized on the one-dollar American coin. The best and most interesting account of them can be found in the wonderful book, Sacagawea’s Child by Susan M. Colby. You can get it on Amazon.
Toussaint CharbonneauDecember 7, 2014
Along the famous voyage they have numerous experiences exciting, terrifying, excruciatingly difficult and sometimes humorous arriving back in civilization two years later with the loss of only one life. Early in the voyage, Jacques tells Lewis there is only one man who knows the way to the Northwest Passage, Toussaint Charbonneau, the son of Jacques’ old teacher. Unfortunately, no one knows of his whereabouts or even if he is alive.
Lewis and Clark RouteDecember 4, 2014
Book five follows the famous voyage of Lewis and Clark as seen through the eyes of old Jacques Allard. Beginning in Lake St. Clair, they travel to Lake Erie, down the Ohio River to the Mississippi River and St. Louis then up the Missouri River where they meet the expedition. From there they continue up the Missouri and westward through terrain never seen by white men. (Well, maybe one). Encountering brutal winter, giant waterfalls, attacks by bears and encounters with natives hostile and friendly, they finally arrive in view of the Pacific Ocean.
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