The Land of the Crooked Tree

by Ulysses P. Hedrick

Book Overview

In 1874, the Hedrick family arrived in L 'Arbre croche or "crooked tree," as the Jesuit missionaries had called it one hundred and fifty years earlier. The wilderness of Little Traverse Bay had just been opened for homesteading, and the Hedricks joined a dozen other white families in the trading post of Little Traverse, situated in virgin forest. From the age of four until he left the area at eighteen, U. P. Hedrick saw the shabby trading post rum...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814318347
• ISBN13: 9780814318348
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A Michigan that is forever lost

This is a great book that can be picked up and read from any chapter; it has been written as a series of chapters that are from the authors memory--like "stolen moments" frozen in time. It gives wonderful insight to a Michigan that has been erased with time.