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Douglass Houghton is the subject of the book, Michigan's Columbus, and it's interesting because I did not coin the phrase "Michigan's Columbus." That was actually a phrase attributed

So Houghton moves to Detroit, he delivers the lectures, and it turns out they were a raging success. Houghton is delivering lectures on things like rocks and trees --

But Houghton had agreed to work out here and he's going to be on the faculty. He was technically on the faculty before that but it's unclear if he ever actually traveled out here to teach

And Houghton was both and so at one point in time though he was probably the guy who knew the most about the State of Michigan. So that's the story of Douglass Houghton and

I'm Al Houghton, musician, producer.

I also should say Houghton Mifflin is publishing a book called "100 Years of the Best American Short Stories," and that's coming out in October.

story of Douglass Houghton. As Michiganers we know that the name Houghton is incredibly

And so they asked Houghton if he would come back to Detroit and deliver lectures. And so interestingly enough, he agreed to do it. He was a young man probably 20, 21 years old

So when Houghton was in Detroit giving his lecture invariably a lot of the famous people

So Henry Schoolcraft approached Houghton and said, "I'm putting together an expedition to go find the headwaters of the Mississippi." They'd never been marked by white men before.

But while Houghton was on that trip he also was exploring and making note of the geological things he saw. And along the way he actually did see the Ontonagon Boulder and visited

this tall and Douglass Houghton was about this tall -- they called Douglass Houghton a little doctor, he five foot four, so he's probably about

So Douglass Houghton goes out in 1837 in the fall to explore Michigan. Now it's kinda late in the year, he can only do a short trip, so him and his men pack up their wagons and

Because Douglass Houghton is gathering samples largely rocks and the other guys are doing the paddling, they'd actually hire guys to do nothing but paddle. He'd hire, they called

it's now called Houghton's goldenrod.

The whole time Houghton's doing his exploring though he was being pushed the whole time

So that's Houghton's work as a geologist.

So Douglass Houghton went to the federal government and got a contract to finish the survey of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. And if you ever go to Sault Saint Marie there's actually

So anyway as Houghton's done with all his exploring, he's done with all his surveying, he's 36 years old. He's been offered a job to teach at the University of Michigan, which

The two voyagers with Houghton actually make it to shore as his dog makes it to shore as well, it's important to the story.

There is memorials to Houghton around. There's actually a memorial to Houghton here on the campus over by the graduate, the-the Hatcher Graduate Library and it's a, it's, they call

Steve Lehto: The Douglass Houghton Falls are on private property now. But they're the tallest waterfalls in Michigan.

And in fact for Houghton to get the job in the Upper Peninsula he's probably one of the few people who could get that job because the bond was so exorbitant that very few people

So but unfortunately Houghton died in 1845 like I said. It's interesting because he died so young. He had been elected a Mayor of Detroit. There's no question though that he probably

After Douglass Houghton died, Alvah Bradish then painted this life size portrait, full size portrait of him standing in front of what he imagined the pictured rocks looked

So the night that Houghton's boat capsized Jacob Houghton was camping inland about two miles. And someone in town actually ran into the woods and found Jacob Houghton and said,

When you were an editor at Houghton Mifflin, did you work a lot with short fiction or did you just stumble into short fiction?

Columbus: The Life of Douglass Houghton here in our Ann Arbor Google office today.

didn't actually discover America and Houghton didn't discover Michigan," but he was an explorer and that's the whole point is that the most, foremost explorer in Michigan history is Douglass

and that was discovered by Houghton and his men in 1838.

corners were marked by Douglass Houghton and his men back in 1844 and 1845.

There's also a memorial to Houghton at Eagle River not far from where he drowned and then as you mentioned there's waterfalls that are named after him called the Douglass Houghton

I-I often get asked about Houghton Lake 'cause there's a Houghton Lake and people go, did, and it was named after him but again he didn't discover that lake.

And the one time that Douglass Houghton sat for a portrait, Bradish painted in about 1835, he's seated in a chair as typical portrait guy sitting in a chair painting. And that

also two or three duplicates of the Houghton portrait. There's one at the Detroit Historical Museum, one at the Portage District Library, and it looks like Alvah Bradish when he couldn't

Heidi worked for nine years as an editor at Houghton Mifflin.

first salt well was sunk by men that Douglass Houghton said, "Dig a well here."

People have known about that for years and in fact when Houghton had gone to the Schoolcraft expedition they had visited a boulder that's called the Ontonagon Boulder. The Ontonagon

So the other interesting thing that came out of Houghton's survey work as he surveyed the Upper Peninsula is that as they're workin' their way across he contracted out a lot of

And when the news reached Detroit that Douglass Houghton had drowned it was a-a big deal as, it had the equivalent of like a state funeral in Detroit. All the mayors were there, the

all died young right around the same time: Houghton, Fox, Denton and Whiting. And it's kind of tucked up against the building most people don't know it's there.

It's interesting I spoke at a library at Houghton Lake not too long ago and someone asked me about that and I had to explain to them that the bad news is that Higgins was actually

his last years of his life on Douglass Houghton's parents' farm.

"Your brother's in a boat that just capsized." Jacob Houghton came out and helped with the search for his brother and I'd never heard

And previously the other historians who have talked about Douglass Houghton had always relied upon this report that was put together by one of the guys who came down from Ft.

Because we push off of this and we get sucked into Pearson and Houghton Mifflin and Common Core, when this is Common Core.

radio host Rob Reinhart, and producers Al Houghton and Mike Crehore.

This book is made with Tapnotes Publishing Company, Houghton Mifflin.

Well, before I worked at Houghton Mifflin, I got my MFA at Emerson College, and most writing students start out by studying short fiction because it's