Summer of the bear : an historical novel about the Anishinabeg and the fur traders in Michigan
By: [written by Leigh A. Arrathoon].
Publisher: Paint Creek Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Rochester, MI
Language: eng
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Michigan -- Fiction; Pigeon River Country State Forest (Mich.) -- Fiction; Michigan -- History -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.; History
Description: While vacationing in the Pigeon River Country State Forest with two friends, fourteen-year-old Kevin learns about the history and customs of the local Indians and about the canoe men, or voyageurs, who traveled the region's rivers beginning in the seventeenth century to trade for animal furs.