Author: Tyler Rudd Putman

Tyler Rudd Putman is a Ph.D. candidate in the History of American Civilization Program in the Department of History at the University of Delaware. He has worked as a historical interpreter at Colonial Michilimackinac and sailed aboard the whaleship Charles W. Morgan and across the Atlantic aboard the Corwith Cramer.

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Two Years Aboard the Welcome: The American Revolution on Lake Huron

In the spring of 1775, the fur trading post at the junction of Lakes Michigan and Huron looked much as it had for years. Fort Michilimackinac, significantly larger than when the French founded the site in 1715, comprised a tall stockade wall surrounding streets of privately owned row houses, a church, a soldiers’ barracks, officers’ […]

by Tyler Rudd Putman