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A trail marker tree in southeastern Marquette County is pictured. (Photo courtesy of Bill Van Kosky via the Marquette Regional History Center)
Among the illustrations in my 1948 Boy Scout handbook was a drawing of a strange-looking tree. It was referred to as an Indian trail marker. I never expected to actually see such a thing, but the drawing was unusual enough so that the memory of it stayed in my brain, to lie dormant there for twenty years.
In 1968, when my wife and I wanted to build a house in the country, we bought 50 acres of forested land southeast of Marquette. One day while hiking on a trail through our newly-acquired property, I noticed a deformed tree. I realized that it looked like the picture of a trail marker I remembered from my Scout handbook. ....

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