In reply to a post a while back regarding the migration of many New Yorkers to Michigan: The following is taken from an article written by historian Dorothy Mitts in her weekly column "Where the Wild Goose Flies" published in the Port Huron (Michigan) Times Herald: (undated; extraction by Kay Mitchell) "About this time (1830's) the fever of land speculation was spreading...nowhere was western land speculation more violent than in New York State, where it was known as 'Michigan Fever.'"