Mackinaw Mission (1823–1837): Window on Michigan’s Statehood

Keith R. Widder, who served as curator of history, Mackinac Island State Park Commission for more than 25 years, covers the Americanization of the fur-trade society centered at Mackinac in the 1820s and 1830s, including commerce, education, language, relationships among ethnic groups and religious turmoil resulting from a clash between Roman Catholicism and evangelical Protestantism.