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Kaunonen, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2013

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.49 KAU

Comstock, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: L. Comstock 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CLEMENC, ANNIE COM

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B CLEMENC COM

Ronn, Ernie

Summary: The story of Ernie Ronn, an iron miner in Negaunee, Michigan.

Format: text

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 RON

Holub, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2013

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 979.4 HOL

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J900 HOL (basket)

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT US Hist What Holub

Foley, Louise Pledge Heath.

Summary: Information was abstracted from land records and quit rent rolls.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Foley 1974

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3 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3755 FOL VOL 1
Call number: R GEN 929.3755 FOL VOL 2
Call number: R GEN 929.3755 FOL VOL 3

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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Midwest Regional Office, National Park Service 1995

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 631.47 MCE

Summary: 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.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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Summary: A compilation of archival footage set to a classical score showing the experiences of England's coal miners.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Icarus Films 2011

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MIN

Summary: History of Iron County, Michigan.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: [publisher not identified] 1985

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3774975 Iron County

Russell, Mary Doria

Summary: In July 1913, 25-year-old Annie Clements had seen enough of the world to know that it was unfair. She's spent her whole life in the copper-mining town of Calumet, Michigan where men risked their lives for meager salaries and had barely enough to put food on the table and clothes on their backs. The women labor in the houses of the elite, and send their men deep underground each day, dreading...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019

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Russell, Mary Doria

Summary: In July 1913, 25-year-old Annie Clements had seen enough of the world to know that it was unfair. She's spent her whole life in the copper-mining town of Calumet, Michigan where men risked their lives for meager salaries and had barely enough to put food on the table and clothes on their backs. The women labor in the houses of the elite, and send their men deep underground each day, dreading...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RUS

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction Rus

Russell, Mary Doria

Summary: "In July 1913, twenty-five-year-old Annie Clements had seen enough of the world to know that it was unfair. She's spent her whole life in the coal-mining town of Calumet, Michigan where men risk their lives for meager salaries--and had barely enough to put food on the table and clothes on their backs. The women labor in the houses of the elite, and send their husbands and sons deep underground...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: Book Club Kit 207 FIC RUS

Summary: "Bisbee '17 is a nonfiction feature film by award-winning filmmaker Robert Greene set in Bisbee, Arizona, an eccentric old mining town just miles away from both Tombstone and the Mexican border. Radically combining collaborative documentary, western and musical elements, the film follows several members of the close knit community as they attempt to reckon with their town's darkest hour. In...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BIS

Russell, Mary Doria

Summary: "In July 1913, twenty-five-year-old Annie Clements had seen enough of the world to know that it was unfair. She's spent her whole life in the copper-mining town of Calumet, Michigan where men risk their lives for meager salaries--and had barely enough to put food on the table and clothes on their backs. The women labor in the houses of the elite, and send their husbands and sons deep...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC RUS

Sockabasin, Allen J.

Summary: "Little Zoo Sap and his family are moving from their summer home on the coast to the deep woods for the winter, traveling on a big bobsled pulled by big horses through the snow. When Zoo Sap falls off of the sled unnoticed, the forest animals hear his cries. First to come are the beaver, who put their tails together to cradle him. Then all the other animals circle round--everyone from the tiny...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tilbury House, Publishers 2014

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SOC

Neumann, Glenn

Contents: Issues of: 1883, 1884 and 1885

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Elk Rapids Historical Society 1998

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.46 NEU

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.464 NEU

Neumann, Glenn

Contents: Issues of: 1880, 1881 and 1882

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Elk Rapids Historical Society 1997

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.464 NEU

Neumann, Glenn.

Contents: Issues of 1870

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Elk Rapids Historical Society 1996

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.46 NEU

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.464 NEU

Neumann, Glenn.

Contents: Issues of: 1886, 1887, 1888 and 1889.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Elk Rapids Historical Society 1996

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.464 NEU
1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 977.464 NEU

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.464 NEU

Angus, Charlie

Summary: "The world is desperate for cobalt. It fuels the digital economy and powers everything from cell phones to clean energy. But this 'demon metal,' this 'blood mineral,' has a horrific present and troubled history. Then there is the town in northern Canada, also called Cobalt. It created a model of resource extraction a hundred years ago -- theft of Indigenous lands, rape of the earth,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Anansi 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.2 ANG

Summary: In 1994, President Clinton signed a bill which reaffirmed the government to government relationship between the United States and the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa. This chronicles the tribe's struggle from the 1836 treaty of Detroit to the 1994 signing.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV JOU

Norris, J. E.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Virginia Book Co. 1972

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3755 NOR

Steel, Charlie

Summary: The discovery of gold in California launched a stampede of fortune-seekers across the continent in search of wealth. Willing to face any hardship -- outlaws, hostile Indians, bad weather, thirst, starvation, and the horrors of disease -- they battled fiercely to overcome these challenges and seize their destiny. But sometimes the treasures they found were not the ones they were expecting . . .

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STE

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lewis Pub. Co. 1887

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 977.267 HIS

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