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Includes photocopies of biographical information about Fred Herrick, one of Stearns's partners in the Wisconsin Indian Reservations. Also contains many other items relating to Stearns's activities in Wisconsin. Items include: Summary of court case Seymour vs. Cushway from Northwestern Reporter (explains partnership between Stearns, Herrick, Cushway, Bishop as well as controversy involving Antoine Cartier); Report of the Twentieth Annual Executive Committee of the Indian Rights Association; article, "Frontier Enterprise Versus the Modern Age; Fred Herrick and the Closing of the Lumberman's Frontier;" two copies of article by J.M Pond "Fred Herrick" (very helpful); article, "Fred Herrick and Bill Grotte, Idaho's Paul Bunyan and his Bull of the Woods;" article, "His $20 Log Started a $12,000 Fortune;" Milwaukee Journal article about lawsuit Seymour vs. Cushway; copies of portions of A History of Northern Michigan and its Peoples by Perry Powers (includes profiles of John Seymour, W.T. Culver, Warren Cartier, Antoine Cartier); portions of Lumbering in Mason County, by Nita Herrick from 1952. Copies include handwritten notes in the margins and highlighted sections.
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