A map found in Jenks (1912, p. 51) of the Indian mounds of Port Huron, apparently based on an 1872 report by Henry Gilman/Gillman (see pages 13-19 in the Sixth Annual Report of the Trustees of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge 1873).
by Vicki Priest (c)
Today, generally speaking, history books are written by scholars and published by companies which think the book will sell enough to make a profit. Just like any other book today, the writer and/or publisher take on all the costs (and risks) of getting the book “out there.” In the past, however, the expense of writing and publishing a history book may have been at least partially paid for up front via “subscribers” who paid varying fees for the upcoming work. This type of commercial history was popular in the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries.
Port Huron Area History & Preservation 