Frontier seaport : Detroit's transformation into an Atlantic entrepôt /
Cangany, Catherine,author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"The appearance of the settlement is very smiling" -- "In time this city will become conspicuous": the development of non-fur-trade commerce -- "The inhabitants are well supplied with provisions of every description" -- "Altogether preferable to shoes": the fashioning of moccasins -- "Detroit, politically . . . remains . . . an isolated moral mass" -- "Advisable to improve the arrangement of the town": rebuilding after the great fire of 1805 -- "Sinister conduct": the pervasion of staples smuggling -- Epilogue: "Exceedingly well situated for a commercial port".