Brigham Young abdicates, giving authority to Governor Cumming... The new state of 'Ontonagon'...
Item # 712595
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THE NORWALK EXPERIMENT, Ohio, May 25, 1858 Page 2 ha a brief yet notable report headed: "Brigham Young has Abdicated" noting: "...brings the intelligence of the arrival of Col. Kane & Gilbert...Gilbert states that Brigham Young has abdicated and Gov. Cumming was, at last dates, thirty miles from Salt Lake City, accompanied by a deputation of 50 Mormons sent to meet him."
Also of curious interest is a back page article: "The New State of Ontonagon", noting near the beginning: "...inclined to give the embryo state to be formed on the southern shore of Lake Superior, Michigan and Wisconsin..." with more on this.
The state of "Superior", or "Ontonagon", was a proposed state that would be created by the secession of the Upper Peninsula from the rest of Michigan, named for adjacent Lake Superior. Some proposals would also incorporate territory from the northern Lower Peninsula, northern Wisconsin, and even Minnesota.
Four pages, nice condition.
Also of curious interest is a back page article: "The New State of Ontonagon", noting near the beginning: "...inclined to give the embryo state to be formed on the southern shore of Lake Superior, Michigan and Wisconsin..." with more on this.
The state of "Superior", or "Ontonagon", was a proposed state that would be created by the secession of the Upper Peninsula from the rest of Michigan, named for adjacent Lake Superior. Some proposals would also incorporate territory from the northern Lower Peninsula, northern Wisconsin, and even Minnesota.
Four pages, nice condition.
Item from our most recent catalog - #368 - released for July, 2026
Category: Pre-Civil War
Price
$55
100% Authentic: Original printing, never a reproduction.