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... was a big broad-faced man with eyes far apart and a bushy red beard. He wore a dingy mackinaw coat, a dingy black-and-white checked-flannel shirt, dingy blue trousers, tucked into high socks and lumberman's rubbers. The only spot of colour in his costume was the flaming red sash of the voyageur which he passed twice around his waist. When at ...

— Blazed Trail Stories - and Stories of the Wild Life • Stewart Edward White

... with radiant features saw The message dated Mackinaw— Then ordered sumptuous cheer; Two dollars' worth, at least, they "cheered" While from his counter Charlie leered An ...

— Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions - Vol. I • Slason Thompson

... Great Lakes were a few forts built by the French and now held by the British. These were Sandusky, Detroit, Mackinaw, and St. Joseph. ...

— A Brief History of the United States • John Bach McMaster

... now began to meet white men in small detachments coming up the river. On the third of September, for example, they met the first men who were able to give them news of home. This party was commanded by a Mr. James Airs (or Ayres), from Mackinaw, by the way of Prairie du Chien and St. Louis. He had two canoes loaded with merchandise which he was taking up the river to trade with the Indians. Among the items of news gathered from him, according to the private ...

— First Across the Continent • Noah Brooks

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