How was Michigan when you arrived there?

After the big, long and unsure trip, the people finally arrived in the big and dangerous Michigan, which only promised an unsure live.
The emigrants heard much warnings. 'Those aren't true for 100%', the immigrants thought. But many were.

'We arrived in an area full with trees, and we had to fell a lot. The tree-stumps had to be burnt down. There were bears and woulves. And if we couldn't scare them enough, so that they would run away, we had big problems. But these things weren't the worst, there were also many different human enemies, which we had to remove from our land. To make matters worse, we had to work in a inhospitable climate.'

It wasn't great, but with the help of the entire community, the immigrants managed to make a life for themselves.

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