The Wisconsin magazine of history: Volume 1, number 2, December 1917

              some publications 225 nomic conditions that existed in the michigan territory until her admission into the union it is by far the most interesting and authentic volume on the early history of michigan that has appeared the work is richly illustrated and is printed in large readable type the michigan historical commission proposes to reproduce by photostatic process the rare files of the kentucky gazette 1787 1800 and the detroit gazette 1817-1830 of the former but one file is known to exist that in the lexington public library of the latter file the wisconsin historical library possesses six bound vol umes covering over one-half of the total period it is proposed to issue ten sets of each paper for as many subscribing libraries the filson club of louisville has issued as number twenty eight of its publications the kentucky river by mary verhoeff in this and other similar studies supported by the filson club ken tucky is accumulating a valuable history of her state development river navigation played a larger part in the early history of ken tucky than in almost any other of the western states miss ver hoeff's chapter on the beginnings of river commerce contains one of the most interesting discussions of trade in the early ohio valley that has recently appeared the study is profusely illustrat ed consisting of six chapters and 257 pages in marked contrast with the expensive volumes that thus far have been issued by the filson club the present one appears in a most simple dress with covers of heavy paper mr a c quisenberry has an interesting article in the septem ber number of the register of the kentucky state historical society on the history of morgan's men there are few chapters in the military history of the confederacy that compare in interest with the swift dashing raids of generals morgan and forrest there are many historical readers who do not know that the southern forces ever came north of the ohio during the conflict between the states but during the summer of 1863 the citizens of indiana and ohio were given the greatest scare they ever experienced when gen eral morgan led 2,000 men in a mad dash across these two states and reached columbia county ohio where surrounded by over 80 000 regulars volunteers and home guards he surrendered mr quisenberry's article gives us a praiseworthy review of this brilliant raid one of the most important publications of original documents that has recently appeared relating to the southwestern portion of the united states and louisiana territory is the collection of the official letter books of gov william c c claiborne edited by dr dunbar rowland of the mississippi historical society governor