As long as I was staying at Schoolcraft State Park I thought it would be a good idea to read one of Henry Schoolcraft's books. I read The Myth Of Hiawatha And Other Oral Legends. Schoolcraft married a native woman. I suppose many books written in the 1800's wouldn't be as interesting now as they were then. I found this one to be dry, repetitive, and boring. After his first wife died he married another woman whose family owned slaves. Schoolcraft later wrote a pro-slavery book which caused a rift between him and the children of his first wife.
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