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Great Lakes booksDrust-Bellous, Betty Marie
Summary: "While I was living in Mohawk, I became interested in the Cornish settlement in Central Mine and the mine disaster of 1872. I intended to write an article for a historical magazine. But once I got into researching the 13 miners of that disaster, I was hooked and wanted to know more about life in the Keweenaw. The book includes the genealogies of the miners in the 1872 accident as well as the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: More than 6,000 shipwrecks have been recorded on the Great Lakes, but only one offers a true-life adventure like the 1926 rescue of the City of Bangor off the Keweenaw Peninsula in upper Michigan. A fierce November storm tossed the ship with a crew of 23 and 240 new Chrysler automobiles onto a Lake Superior reef. For the first time, Shipwrecked and Rescued: Cars and Crew tells the near-tragic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.L. Management, LLC 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Carney-Coston, Barbara
Summary: In 1886, 11-year-old Mihaela embarks on a journey from Croatia to the Keweenaw Peninsula, also known as Michigan's Copper Country. Mihaela's papa had made the trip two years beforehand in order to work the copper mines so that he could send money back home, but a painful eye disease has left him vulnerable in a new land and in need of the skills of his wife, an expert healer. And so Mihaela,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2017