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Detroit Free Press from Detroit, Michigan • Page 140

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Detroit, Michigan
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140
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Further, imagine that you are French, have never seen the United States or Michigan before, and that you have for guides two wild-looking Indians who speak not a CnM Cam ll TMT CMct tf Btpit "One league without trees and under cultivation around Detroit," De Tocqueville wrote. "After that we enter a thick forest through which a fine road has been cut Dinner at Troy Zap! Rochester Road exit. had found it wise to leave France for a while after Louis Philippe came to power following the July, 1830, revolution. They did, however, make a thorough and scholarly study of Sing Sing and Auburn Penitentiary in New York, as well as of the social, economic and political structures in the United States. Both young men developed an insatiable curiosity to see the wilderness before civilization reached it, and they were drawn irresistibly to the frontier.

In 1831, that was Michigan. And that was the year The Free Press began printing. "Detroit is a small town of two or three thousand souls," wrote Tocqueville in his notebook, "which was founded in the middle of the woods by the Jesuits in 1710, and which still contains a very great num-Continued on Page 28 Call In Da; or iifkt IkMIbi Sn. HE 5-5075 HOM-DRAFT, INC. 18923 Wett Swn Mil Detroit Wrm 109, IVtnWJJwTW word of French or English, and who, you suspect, might lead you into an ambush at any moment.

No highway, no subdivisions or stores, no signs reading "Gas, Food, Next Exit," no Howard Johnson. Just the green roof of the forest stretching all the way to the Straits, utterly silent except for the whine of a million mosquitoes. That's how it was for two young Parisian magistrates, Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont, who came to Detroit on July 22, 1831, hoping to see the real American wilderness and savage Indians. Before arriving in Detroit aboard the Lake Erie steamer Ohio, they had visited in the East, ostensibly to study the new American penal system which was attracting world-wide interest. Actually, they The Detroit Free Press, August 29, 1965 FOAM RUBIES FLAKES.

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