| Book Review | The Michigan Historical Review, 33.2

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Matthew J. Friday. Among the Sturdy Pioneers: The Birth of the Cheboygan Area as a Lumbering Community, 1778–1935. Victoria, B.C.: Trafford, 2006. Pp. 162. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Photographs. Paper, $19.99.
"I never in my life saw or heard of a place so absolutely jinxed as that town is" (p. 105). Despite this rather dismal recollection by a former resident, writing from Tacoma, Washington, in 1930, the history of Cheboygan, Michigan, has not always been one of gloom and doom. Although this small northern Michigan lumber town has had the characteristic ups and downs of any community dependent on exhaustible resources, Cheboygan managed to thrive for a remarkably long time and eventually sustain itself into the twenty-first century with a population not much smaller than it had in its halcyon days one hundred years ago. In his brief but very thorough community biography, Among the Sturdy Pioneers: The Birth of the Cheboygan Area as a Lumbering Community, 1778–1935, Matthew J. Friday combines narrative history with perceptive insights that remind the reader of the challenges confronted by this resourceful community.	1
The natural resources of northern Michigan drew Native American settlers to the tip of the Lower Peninsula, and Friday begins his book by recounting both the lives and the legends of the early Chippewa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi inhabitants. The author continues his narrative by smoothly integrating the Indians' transient settlement patterns with the history of French, British, and early American occupation. In 1853 Cheboygan County was organized, and soon thereafter lumbermen were buying up pinelands and constructing sawmills at the mouth of the Cheboygan River, attracted by the area's timber and its convenient, navigable waterways into the interior chain of lakes.	. . .

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