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A Child of the Sea

by Elizabeth Whitney Williams

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Elizabeth Whitney Williams recalls childhood on the islands of northern Lake Michigan, where her family lived through the years when James Strang ruled Beaver Island as king of a breakaway Mormon colony. She describes island life, the tensions between settlers and Strangites, and the hardships and kindnesses of her youth, before her later years as a lighthouse keeper.

A rare first-hand account of one of the strangest episodes in American frontier religion. Download the free EPUB.

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