Lankton, 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 2010

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 972.499 LAN

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.499 LAN

Krause, David J.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1992

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Wasek, A.A.

Summary: One of America's most famous - and most deadly - labor strikes occurred in The Copper Country of Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula in 1913, and its major events are described through the eyes of sixteen-year old Emilia Rytilahti. Emilia and her younger sister Heli are first-generation American born Finns, who see and personally experience the prejudice of the era against their family and their...

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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Wasek,] 2011

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Lamarre, Jean

Contents: Quebec in the nineteenth century -- The development of the Saginaw Valley and the Keweenaw Peninsula, 1840-1914 -- French Canadian migration to the Saginaw Valley, 1840-1900 -- French Canadian migration to the Keweenaw Peninsula, 1840-1914.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2003

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Thurner, Arthur W.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1994

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.499 THU

Jorgensen, Larry E.

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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4995 JOR

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

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Drust-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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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.37749 Bellous