Chapter headings: Discovery, Early Exploration, Later Exploration, Jesuit Missionaries, The Savages and their Inter-Tribal Wars, The Fur Trade and its Importance, First French Attempts at Colonization, The Settlements at Sault Ste Marie and Michilimackinac, Cadillac and his Colony, Cadillac as Feudal Lord, French Successors of Cadillac, Dangers which Surrounded the New Settlement, Commercial Rivalry between the French and English, Border Wars of the Colonists, Final Success of the English, Effect upon the Indians of the Lake Regions, Pontiac plans to wipe out the English Invaders, Complete Defeat of the Savages, Progress of the Colony under improved Conditions, the Old French Habitants and their Ways, Michigan under British Rule, Influx of Settlers, Close of the Revolution and Surrender of Michigan to the United States.