Title: Captain Streeter Pioneer
Review: This biography/autobiography has led local historians astray ever since 1913! Streeter wanted one kind of book, and his collaborator wanted another, and they reached a compromise only after Streeter stopped publication. As a result, there is an interesting account of his Michigan boyhood, lies about his early manhood out West and in the Civil War, and wonderful whoppers about his years fighting over ownership of Lake Shore Drive in Chicago. Streeter was a con-man, forger, and colorful mythmaker. Read it for entertainment, but not for history.
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