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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: L. Comstock 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B CLEMENC COMSummary: We are excited to bring you Diba Jimooyung. Found here are many of the stories of Anishinabe men and women from older times & before the coming of Europeans & along with stories and accounts that happened after European and American contact. It is our story of our experience here on Turtle Island (North American), our homeland. The writing of Diba Jimooyung has been no small undertaking, nor is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan, Ziibiwing Cultural Society 2005
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Summary: Historian and published biographer Julie Schopieray once again brings an unknown figure to life. Readers, especially those familiar with Traverse City, Michigan, will wonder why they had not heard of Jens C. Petersen before—and will appreciate reading about this remarkable man who lived in Northern Michigan for nearly thirty-five years. Most likely the first licensed architect to ever work in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Julie Schopiery 2018
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1 available in Local Author, Call number: 921 PETERSEN, JENS C. SCH1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 921 PETERSEN, JENS SCH
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 921 PETRussell, John Andrew
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Books 1994
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3774 RUSAnderson, Carlotta R.
Summary: "All-American Anarchist chronicles the life and work of Joseph A. Labadie (1850-1933), Detroit's prominent labor organizer and one of early labor's most influential activists. A dynamic participant in the major social reform movements of the Gilded Age, Labadie was a central figure in the pervasive struggle for a new social order as the American Midwest underwent rapid industrialization at the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1998
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Summary: "More than 20,000 American Indians served in the Civil War, yet their stories have often been left out of the history books. In [this book, the author] explores the extraordinary lives of Michigan's Anishinaabe sharpshooters. These brave soldiers served with honor and heroism in the line of duty, despite enduring broken treaties, loss of tribal lands, and racism. Filled with fascinating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.7 WALCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 973.7 WALSummary: Original research and interviews of local people familiar with the the life styles of this popular summer resort that peaked between the twenties and forties. Originally large wooden hotels build by the railroads attracted wealthy mid-west families that spend the whole summers playing golf and tennis, sailing and partying. The history of the private associations, the gambling casinos are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jet'iquette 1976
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.486 SUM1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 977.486 GIL
Griffin, Gail B.
Summary: "Gail Griffin had only been married for four months when her husband's body was found in the Manistee River, just a few yards from their cabin door. The terrain of memoir is full of stories of grief, though Grief's Country: A Memoir in Pieces is less concerned with the biography of a love affair than with the lived phenomenon of grief itself-what it does to the mind, heart, and body; how it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRIFFIN, GAIL B. GRIMarsh, Nicholas A.
Summary: A biography about James F. Joy whose aim was to secure one unbroken line of uniform guage from Boston to Galveston.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nicholas A. March 2021
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Summary: The celebrated writer reminisces about his boyhood in Michigan at the turn of the century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CATTON, BRUCE CAT1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 977.4632 CAT