Jane Johnston Schoolcraft was respected by her contemporaries as a woman of intelligence, literary talent, and wit, and writers such as Anna Jameson, Harriet Martineau, and Thomas McKenney admired her work and traveled from afar to visit her. She earned this reputation even though all of her writing appeared in one magazine, The Literary Voyager or Muzzeniegun, published by Jane and her husband, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, the noted documenter of Native American life and customs. The magazine was an outgrowth of a reading society established by the Schoolcrafts among the American and Canadian citizens of Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, who met weekly to discuss books and scholarly subjects. The society and the magazine provided a welcome literary diversion for the snow- and ice-bound inhabitants of the border region near Lake Superior. While the magazine was largely for the residents of the Sault, as the settlement on both sides...