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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OOMEN, ANNE-MARIE OOMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Word OomenMartin, Susan R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.49 MAROomen, Anne-Marie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.459 OOM1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.4 OOM
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.4 OOMGagnon, John (John G.)
Summary: Like Lake Superior itself, the communities of people surrounding the "Big Lake" are vast and full of variety, spanning state and international boundaries. In Lake Superior Profiles: People on the Big Lake, author John Gagnon gives readers a sense of the memorable characters who inhabit the area without attempting to take an exhaustive inventory. Instead, Gagnon met people casually and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.49 GAGMason, Philip P. (Philip Parker)
Summary: History of life in Michigan during prohibition when seventy-five percent of the illegal liquor smuggled into the United States came across the Detroit River from Canada.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MIO 364.133 MASLutes, Della T. (Della Thompson)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 640.973 LUTMason, Philip P.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 624.55 MasShine, Neal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.34 SHIRoberts, David
Contents: Riverside -- The Ford Motor Company of Canada -- Mr. Ford's Canadian Model T -- Victory bonds -- Lockout -- Motoropolis -- McGregor's legacy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCGREGOR, GORDON M RobertsLankton, 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
1 available in Adult, Call number: 972.499 LANCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.499 LANDunnigan, Brian Leigh.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2008
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 977.4923 DUNHedrick, U. P.
Summary: Hedrick writes of his youth during the beginning of homesteading the Little Traverse Bay wilderness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1986
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 917.74 HEDDunnigan, Brian Leigh.
Summary: "Detroit's origins as a French outpost make it older than many other cities of eastern North America, despite its inland location. A vivid iconographic record survives for early Detroit, created by those who studied the city for military or commercial purposes. These pictures and maps are tantalizing windows into the past of this colonial metropolis of the Great Lakes during its French,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2001
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 977.434 DUNChardavoyne, David G.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.66 CHAHobart, Henry
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bureau of History, Dept. of State 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.499 HOBMartin, John Bartlow
Summary: "This is a newspaperman's history of the Upper Peninsula. Intrigued by the place name Michigamme, Martin and his wife stopped there on their wedding trip in 1940 and became enchanted with the Upper Peninsula. Out of that attraction came more visits, a string of interviews and a series of tales told by miners, loggers, hunters and trappers. Originally published in 1944, it is a collection of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1986
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.4 MARRoot, Robert L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 DOUGLASS, RUTH ROOEckert, Kathryn Bishop.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 721.0441 ECKSmucker, Anna Egan.
Summary: After her grandfather's death in the fall of 1871, twelve-year-old Jessie bravely helps her mother take care of the lighthouse her family has kept for generations on South Manitou Island in Lake Michigan, hoping that they will be allowed to continue to live and work there.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 977.499 KRALivingston, Patrick.
Contents: Prologue -- Bob-Lo in the river of time -- Amusing times for the twentieth century, 1892-1902 -- Dance fever, 1902-1912 -- Good times and hard times, 1913-1939 -- Under new management, 1938-1949 -- Bob-Lo : a Browning line, 1949-1979 -- Thrills and spills in the amusement business, 1979-1993 -- The thrill is gone, 1993-2006 -- Afterword.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2008