Excerpt from The Ottawan: A Short History of the Villages and Resorts Surrounding Little Traverse Bay, and the Indian Legends Connected Therewith I take pleasure in calling the attention of my readers to that portion of thework devoted to the Mormon kingdom on Beaver Island, for which I am indebted to Mr. Chas. J. Strang, of Lansing, Mich., one of King Strang's sons. I believe it to be correct in every particular. I am also under obligations to Mr. Thos. T. Bates, editor of the Grand Traverse Herald, Traverse City, Mich., and Mr. Andrew J. Blackbird, and Rev. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.