Michigan as “no man’s land”

MICHIGAN TERRITORY

“After the admission of Indiana in 1816 the central part of the Upper Peninsula between the meridian of Mackinac and Menominee was left outside the limits of any State or Territory and with no government. It remained “no man’s land” until 1818.”

Michigan Pioneer and Historical Collections, Vol. 30, page 18.

Nicknames of Michigan (Michiganer and Wolverine State)

RESEARCH – NAMES – MICHIGANDER AND WOLVERINE

Source:

1. Michigan Alumnus Quarter. Rev. XLVIII 203-8 Spring.

2. Schoolcraft, H. R. Personal Memoirs of a residence of thirty years with the Indian Tribes. (Phil: 1851) p. 459. “One of the St. Igance Indians,…says that the Chippewa Indians called the Wolverine “Gween-guh-auga,” which means underground drummer. The animal is a great digger or burrower.”

3. “The Wolverine State” in MICHIGAN HISTORY, Vol. 27, p. 337-8. “The Wolverine” in Vol. 27, 581-589.