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'prefacetruce in a perpetual warfare. The experienceof the last year has proven that the open shopsof the country had been secretly organizedand their production interrupted by the generalstrike, while the shops that had been maintainedon the non-union basis were undisturbed.Only- fair dealing can successfullymaintain a non-union shop, and the managementof The Lakeside Press, realizing theirtrusteeship to the public and to their employees,have deliberately assumed the burdenof so treating their employees that theyneither need nor desire the interference oflabor unions;This year we have taken for the subjectmatter of the volume an early narrative oftravel centering around Mackinaw. Henry wasthe first Englishman to venture out into thewilderness after the French had been deposedfrom its sovereignty. Outside of its interestas a narrative of pure exploration, its chiefinterest lies in the fact that the early historyof Chicago is so intimately connected withthat of Mackinaw. Mackinaw for a centurywas the center of the fur trade of the GreatNorthwest, and until the beginning of thenineteenth century, all approach to Chicagowas through that trading center.Mr. Quaife has again consented to act aseditor and to prepare the historical introduction.Christmas, 1921.THE PUBLISHERS.viii