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Contents: Early gold and silver discoveries -- The 1860s silver lead rush -- The Ontonagon County silver rush -- The Ropes gold mine -- The Michigan gold mine -- Michigan Range prospects -- Ropes Range prospects -- The Dead River Gold Range -- Other Marquette County prospects -- Baraga, Iron and Dickinson County prospects -- Gogebic Range gold and silver mines -- Placer mining -- Fables and frauds --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 622.342 FOUKaunonen, Gary.
Summary: A mirror of great changes that were occurring on the national labor rights scene, the 1913–14 Michigan Copper Strike was a time of unprecedented social upheaval in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. With organized labor taking an aggressive stance against the excesses of unfettered capitalism, the stage was set for a major struggle between labor and management. The Michigan Copper Strike received...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.49 KAULassieur, Allison
Summary: This encyclopedia offers readers the chance to explore the 63 national parks in the United States and its territories. Alongside photos of the parks, the text highlights each park's history, points of interest, and things to do. Features include glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Encyclopedias, an imprint of Abdo Reference 2023
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Summary: Read about more than 75 gold-mining ventures in Michigan's Upper Peninsula and the people who pursued them. From the discovery of the mineral wealth in the 1840s to modern mining and prospecting practices today, this publication is the only complete history of Michigan's gold mines.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Superior Port Cities 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 622.3422 FOUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI U.P. FountainLehto, Steve.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Momentum Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.499 LEH1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.4 LEH
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977 LehComstock, Lyndon.
Summary: A biography of Annie Clemenc, who led the 1913 strike by copper miners employed by the Calumet & Hecla Mining Company in upper Michigan. It covers her childhood, her work in the Slovenian immigrant community in Calumet, Michigan, her participation in the copper strike, and her subsequent life in Chicago.
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Publisher / Publication Date: L. Comstock 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CLEMENC, ANNIE COMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B CLEMENC COMRonn, Ernie
Summary: The story of Ernie Ronn, an iron miner in Negaunee, Michigan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center for Upper Peninsula Studies, Northern Michigan University 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RONN, ERNIE RONLiesch, Matthew.
Summary: Situated on the south shore of Lake Superior, the Gogebic Iron Range of Michigan and Wisconsin exudes a strong sense of place. During the 1880s, a mining boom lured settlers, investment, and controversy. Investors from Milwaukee, Chicago, and Cleveland hoped to become rich, but many were pulled into scams or poorly managed mines and ended up losing their money. After iron stocks crashed, mining...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcadia Pub. 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.4983 LIENies, Judith
Summary: Describes the darker side of the history of Las Vegas and Black Mesa, Arizona, including the relocation of fifteen thousand Navajo to mine coal for cheap electricity for the Vegas Strip and the precipitous drop in the water level of Lake Mead. An epic struggle over land, water, and power is erupting in the American West and the halls of Washington, DC. It began when a 4,000-square-mile area of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.3135 NIELankton, Larry D.
Summary: From the Dust Jacket: In Hollowed Ground, author Larry Lankton tells the story of two copper industries on Lake Superior-native copper mining, which produced about 11 billion pounds of the metal from the 1840s until the late 1960s, and copper sulfide mining, which began in the 1950s and produced another 4.4 billion pounds of copper through the 1990s. In addition to documenting companies and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2010
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1 available in Michigan Room, Call number: MI 977.499 Lankton 2010Copies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.499 LANGreen, James R.
Summary: From before the dawn of the 20th century until the arrival of the New Deal, one of the most protracted and deadly labor struggles in American history was waged in West Virginia. On one side were powerful corporations whose millions bought armed guards and political influence. On the other side were 50,000 mine workers, the nation’s largest labor union, and the legendary “miners’ angel,” Mother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975 GREFranklin, Jonathan
Summary: This is the account of the 2010 San Jose mine rescue in Chile, after one of the longest human entrapments in history. With his coveted "rescue pass," the author was permitted access far past the police perimeter. It would be seventeen long days before the miners were discovered alive and the world press descended. It would be another fifty-two days before the miners were all successfully...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.11 FRACastner, Brian
Summary: "A gripping and wholly original account of the epic human tragedy that was the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-1898"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 971.9 CASMaki, Wilbert B.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [s.n.] 1983
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.89 Maki,Hansen, Dennis R.
Summary: The Trail Atlas of Michigan is the only comprehensive guide of non-motorized trails for Michigan. The Atlas covers hiking, x-c skiing, mountain and road biking, in-line skating and nature trails. The Atlas covers trails in every corner of the state from Monroe County near Lake Erie to Keweenaw County in the Upper Peninsula and hundreds of places in between.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hansen Pub. 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 912.774 HANCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 912.774 HANStanley, Jerry
Summary: The story of Annie Clemenc and the 1913 strike by copper miners employed by the Calumet & Hecla Mining Company in upper Michigan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CLEHolub, Joan.
Summary: Describes the nineteenth century American gold rush, and includes information on gold rush "boomtowns," relations between Native Americans and gold rush pioneers, and the importance of the gold rush on American history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 979.4 HOLCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT US Hist What HolubWatkins, Steve
Summary: "The true story of the West Virginia coal miners who ignited the largest labor uprising in American history"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 331.892 WATSummary: The story of 14 year-old Basilio Vargas and his 12 year-old brother Bernardino as they work in the sixteenth century Bolivian silver mines of Cerro Rico (Potosí). Cerro Rico miners believe that Satan, as represented by hundreds of statues constructed in the mines, determines whether they live or die there.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run/Icarus Films [distributor] 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DEVFoley, Louise Pledge Heath.
Summary: Information was abstracted from land records and quit rent rolls.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Foley 1974
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3 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3755 FOL VOL 1Call number: R GEN 929.3755 FOL VOL 2
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McEnaney, Marla J.
Summary: An assessment of agricultural and cultural landscape resources in the Port Oneida Rural Historic District at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Michigan. This illustrated study is replete with pictures, maps, diagrams, and census records.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Midwest Regional Office, National Park Service 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 631.47 MCEBufka, Norbert
Summary: Good Harbor Michigan is about a thriving community in central Leelanau County. A lumbering town sprang up in the mid 1880’s only to die as the result of a fire. The community continued and this is their story, based on primary source material, especially the Leelanau Enterprise which began publishing its weekly paper in 1880. citations are included for the serious historian and the people data...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform] 2018
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 977.4635 BUF1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 977.4635 BUF
Summary: Chronicles the 1973 Harlan County, Kentucky coal miners' strike against the operators of the Brookside mine and the Duke Power Company, which resulted from the company's refusal to honor the national contract of the United Mine Workers of America when the miners joined the union.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 331.89 HARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HARSummary: An epic labor strike that devastated Michigan's Copper Country in 1913 haunts the American labor movement to this day. Among the notable elements of that strike was the death of 73 children at a union Christmas party, a tragedy immortalized by Woody Guthrie in his ballad "1913 Massacre", performed in the film by Steve Earle. The event remains the deadliest unsolved manslaughter in U.S. history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013