Barber, Sally.
Summary: This selection of 12 stories from Michigan's past explores some of the Great Lakes State's most compelling mysteries and debunks some of its most famous myths.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Globe Pequot Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 BARRogers, D. Laurence
Summary: "Centuries ago, Europeans desperate for gold and a route to the East found a lush, green paradise populated by native tribes in the New World. Despite a clash of cultures, cooperation created the fur trade that dominated early Michigan history. Subsequent violence and disease all but wiped out the native population. Later, intrepid residents crossed the frozen Straits of Mackinac on foot and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The History Press 2018
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 ROGKent, Timothy J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Silver Fox Enterprises 2003
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.401 KEN1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL RM 977.401 KEN
Neumann, Glenn
Contents: Issues of: 1880, 1881 and 1882
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Publisher / Publication Date: Elk Rapids Historical Society 1997
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.464 NEUNeumann, Glenn.
Contents: Issues of 1870
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Publisher / Publication Date: Elk Rapids Historical Society 1996
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.464 NEUNeumann, Glenn
Contents: Issues of: 1883, 1884 and 1885
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Publisher / Publication Date: Elk Rapids Historical Society 1998
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.464 NEUNeumann, Glenn.
Contents: Issues of: 1886, 1887, 1888 and 1889.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Elk Rapids Historical Society 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.464 NEU1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 977.464 NEU
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.464 NEULeBeau, Patrick Russell
Summary: Rethinking Michigan Indian History is a teaching tool that honors the Chippewa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi and the twelve federally recognized tribes of Michigan by recognizing their role and place in Michigan history--exploring what most people know (or do not know) about them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 LEBCleland, Charles E.
Summary: For many thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans, Michigan's native peoples, the Anishnabeg, thrived in the forests and along the shores of the Great Lakes. Theirs were cultures in delicate social balance and in economic harmony with the natural order. Rites of Conquest details the struggles of Michigan Indians - the Ojibwa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi, and their neighbors - to maintain...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Michigan Press 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 CLE1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 970.1 CLE
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.4 CLEMcEnaney, 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 MCEKaunonen, 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 KAUSummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV JOUSummary: "In Asian Americans in Michigan: Voices from the Midwest, editors Sook Wilkinson and Victor Jew have assembled forty-one diverse contributors to give an intimate glimpse into Michigan's Asian American communities. Contributors create a fuller picture of these often overlooked groups, including the historical and demographic origins of Michigan's Asian American communities, experiences in memory...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.895 ASICasamer, Douglas M.
Summary: The Michigan 22nd Infantry regiment was instrumental in making the outcome of the Civil War a Union victory. Included is a study of the 1,610 men who fought in this regiment. Fought in and around the following battles; Chickamauga; Lookout Mountain; Chattanooga; Lost Mountain; Kennesaw Mountain; Chattahoochee River; Peach Tree Creek; Jonesboro; Atlanta. Formed at Pontiac, Michigan and mustered...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Casamer Publishing 2006
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R GEN 973.7474 CASComstock, 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 COMMichigan Historical Commission
Contents: Today and yesterday : These times and times gone by / Carl R. Anderson -- Vacationland in the heart of the Great Lakes / Ferris E. Lewis -- Putting a nation on wheels / Joe L. Norris -- Our melting pot of nationalities / Lawrence S. Thompson -- Labor and social welfare / Sidney Glazer -- Better farming for better living / Joseph G. Duncan -- Changes in rural and urban living / Willis F. Dunbar...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1949
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 917.74 THIRonn, 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 RONSummary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Books 1994
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3774 RUSWong, Phyllis Michael
Summary: "Phyllis Michael Wong tells the stories of the "Gossard Girls," women who sewed corsets and bras at factories in Ispheming and Gwinn in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, from the early twentieth century to the 1970s. Particularly as the Upper Peninsula's mines were exhausted and its stands of timber depleted, the Gossard Girls' income sustained both their families and the local economy"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.4 WONCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI UP WongRussell, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LABADIE, JO ANDSummary: A history of the Newberry, Michigan State Hospital with William A. Decker, M.D., DLFAPA Luce County Historical Society, June 27, 2009.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.21 HIS1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 362.21 HIS
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