Here is a list of history books on Michigan that are on line. I have not tried this before so I hope the links work. Enjoy! Indian Names of Places Near the Great Lakes (1888) by Dwight H. Kelton (page images at canadiana.org) Report of the Survey of the North and Northwest Lakes by George Gordon Meade (page images at MOA) Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 by Margaret Fuller illustrated HTML with commentary at Washington HTML and page images at LOC Lake Superior Guide by John Disturnell (page images at MOA) Memorials of a Half-Century in Michigan and the Lake Region by Bela Hubbard (HTML and page images at LOC) Gazetteer of the State of Michigan by John T. Blois (HTML and page images at LOC) Michigan State Gazetteer and Business Directory for 1863/4 (HTML and page images at LOC) Men of Progress: Embracing Biographical Sketches of Representative Michigan Men by Evening News Association (Detroit) (HTML and page images at LOC) Michigan Biographies (2 vols.) by Michigan Historical Commission (HTML and page images at LOC) A Gallery of Pen Sketches in Black and White of Our Michigan Friends "As We See 'Em." by Newspaper Cartoonists' Association of Michigan (HTML and page images at LOC) Facts and Figures About Michigan by Frank James Bramhall (HTML and page images at loc.gov) Detroit and the Pleasure Resorts of Northern Michigan by Detroit Lansing and Northern Railroad Company (HTML and page images at loc.gov) The Autobiography of Woodbridge N. Ferris by Woodbridge N. Ferris (HTML at ferris.edu) Souvenir: National Grange in Michigan, ed. by Ellsworth A. Holden (HTML and page images at LOC) Then Came May by Georgia Hastings Hufford (HTML and page images at LOC) Trouting on the Brulé River by John Lyle King (HTML and page images at LOC) The Red Book of Michigan: A Civil, Military and Biographical History by Charles Lanman (page images at MOA) Among the Wolverines by Augustus C. Schooley (HTML and page images at LOC) Journal of a Trip to Michigan in 1841 by Lansing B. Swan (HTML and page images at LOC) General History of the State of Michigan by Charles R. Tuttle (page images at MOA) The Autobiography of David Ward by David Ward (HTML and page images at LOC) A Child of the Sea and Life Among the Mormons by Elizabeth Whitney Williams (HTML and page images at LOC) A History of Herring Lake, With an Introductory Legend, The Bride of Mystery by John Harris Howard (HTML and page images at LOC) History of Livingston Co. Michigan, With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers (Philadelphia: Everts & Abbott, 1880) (illustrated HTML with commentary at livgenmi.com) The Standard Guide: Mackinac Island and Northern Lake Resorts (HTML and page images at LOC) Marquette, Mackinac Island and the "Soo" by B. F. Childs (HTML and page images at LOC) An Address on the Climate, Soil, Resources, Development, Commerce and Future of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan by Alexander Campbell (HTML and page images at LOC) Between the Iron and the Pine: A Biography of a Pioneer Family and a Pioneer Town by Lewis Charles Reimann (page images and HTML at LOC) Gazetteer of the St. Joseph Valley, Michigan and Indiana by Timothy Gilman Turner (page images at MOA) Along the Bowstring or South Shore of Lake Superior by Julian Ralph (HTML and page images at LOC) A True Description of the Lake Superior Country by John R. St. John (HTML and page images at LOC) The Bath School Disaster (1927) by M. J. Ellsworth (illustrated HTML with commentary at msu.edu) The Bark Covered House, or Back in the Woods Again by William Nowlin (HTML and page images at LOC) Laws and Regulations of the American Medical Association, With a Sketch of Detroit, and a Brief History of the University of Michigan, and of the Development of the Resources of the State by American Medical Association (page images at MOA) Sketches of the City of Detroit, State of Michigan, Past and Present by Robert E. Roberts (page images at MOA) A History of the Township and Village of Howell, Michigan (Howell, MI: Livingston Tidings Print, 1911) by A. Riley Crittenden (HTML at livgenmi com) Pioneer Recollections: Semi-Historic Side Lights on the Early Days of Lansing by Daniel Stafford Mevis (HTML and page images at LOC) Proceedings at the Laying of the Corner Stone of the New Capitol of Michigan on the 2d Day of October, 1873, at the City of Lansing by Michigan Board of State Building Commissioners (page images at MOA) Old Mackinaw, or, The Fortress of the Lakes and Its Surroundings by W. P. Strickland (page images at MOA) The Vermontville Colony, Its Genesis and History, With Personal Sketches of the Colonists by Edward W. Barber (HTML and page images at LOC) The Past of Ypsilanti by Gustavus Lemuel Foster (page images at MOA) Memoirs of Jeremiah Curtin by Jeremiah Curtin and Alma M. Cardell Curtin, ed. by Joseph Schafer (HTML and page images at LOC)