Fox Islands corpus record: sn83026172 1856 04 12 ed1 p3 (1856-04-12)

Summary

This source-body record preserves one locally grounded Fox Islands mention. It is an evidence node, not an event claim: generic references remain generic unless a separate curated activity article names a source-specific activity.

Indexed context

und Mormon. The report is very favorable. At Lake Mormon the settlements are suflici ently numerous that no further anxiety is felt about them.” “The field of ice is extensive, beyond all comparison. There has been good sleighing for weeks, over broad deep channels where ice was never seen before. Indian tradi tion says that ages ago, long before the memory* of the oldest Indian, the ice was so for one day that men crossed from Big Beaver to the Fox islands. The tradition has been generally discredited. No white man ever saw the ice closed across till this winter. Now it has been good crossing with horse teams for three weeks. Southwest of the Foxes, a day’s travel, it is good travelling with horses, and no water in sight. There has been no water east of the Manitou, Fox, and Beaver islands since the 14‘h of February, and within a week the passage might have been made with safety from Sleeping Bear

Scope and limits

The audit classified this body as local because it uses a directional Fox name or a Michigan/Beaver cue. Exact-body deduplication suppresses only byte-identical mirrors; alternate OCR editions may remain separate. Check the cited source before making a historical claim.

See also

• Beaver Island archipelago