Fox Islands corpus record: 1265185.0001.001.umich.edu, undated

Summary

The audit matched the name Fox Island in a scanned Internet Archive volume, 1265185.0001.001.umich.edu_djvu, which the index carries undated. It kept the body as a local mention because the same body also names Beaver Island and Strang. What follows is the indexed context. The page holds more.

Indexed context

winter approached, those who had been most hostile against the Mormons, attempted to get up a crowd to winter on Whiskey Point, prepared for hostilities with the Mor- mons.—The proposition frightened off many who would otherwise have stayed, and all who had been commit- ted against the Mormons followed. WRECK OF THK ILLfNOrs. Later in the fall the Propeller Illi- nois went ashore on Fox Island. The Captain went to Manltou for assist- ance, and was refused. He then went to the Beaver and asked Mr. Strang to furnish him assistance. He had beem unfriendly to the Mormons, and several times treated them 111. Yet they turned on tin force to save his boat, of which he was a half owner. When they arrived there it was so much injured that he deter- mined to abandon it. The

Scope and limits

A mention is not an event. Where a held source supports one, a curated article under event/ carries the claim and this record is only its evidence. Deduplication here suppresses byte-identical bodies alone, so a second OCR edition of the same page is still a second record. The name is not unique to Michigan either, which is why the audit tests for a local cue at all. Read the cited source before you cite it.

Added 1 August 2026 · revised 3 August 2026. Recent changes