Hidden History of Detroit (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781540205919)

Discover the Motor City before the motor: a muddy port town full of grog shops, horse races, haphazard cemeteries and enterprising bootstrappers from all over the world. Meet the argumentative French fugitive who founded the city, the tobacco magnate who haunts his shuttered factory, the gambler prankster millionaire who built a monument to himself, the governor who brought his scholarly library with him on canoe expeditions and the historians who helped create the story of Detroit as we know it: one of the oldest, rowdiest and most enigmatic cities in the Midwest.

Author: Amy Elliott Bragg
ISBN-10: 1540205916
ISBN-13: 9781540205919
Publisher: History Press Library Editions
Language: English
Published: 10/20/2011
Pages: 162
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d