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Publisher / Publication Date: Bureau of History, Dept. of State 1991
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Place a hold to request this item.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 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 LANDrust-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 BellousJorgensen, 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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Summary: During the nineteenth century, the Keweenaw Peninsula of Northern Michigan was the site of America's first mineral land rush as companies hastened to profit from the region's vast copper deposits. In order to lure workers to such a remote location--and work long hours in dangerous conditions--companies offered not just competitive wages but also helped provide the very infrastructure of town...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2010
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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 KRACarney-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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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CARLankton, Larry D.
Summary: "Concentrating on technology, economics, labor, and social history, Cradle to Grave documents the full life cycle of one of America's great mineral ranges from the 1840s to the 1960s. Lankton examines the workers' world underground, but is equally concerned with the mining communities on the surface. For the first fifty years of development, these mining communities remained remarkably...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1991
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: Book Club Kit 208 NF LANLamarre, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.499 LAMGrimes, Kenn
Summary: "Three murders in four days! That's a lot of crime in the 1920s for Booker Falls, a small town tucked away in Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula, a part of the state's Upper Peninsula ... "--Page [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cozy Cat Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRIWasek, 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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WASLankton, Larry D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 622.343 LANLankton, Larry D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 622.343 LANGrimes, Kenn
Summary: "In 1919, Myrtle Tully, recently returned to America from serving as a "Hello Girl" in Europe during World War I, takes a job as assistant librarian at Adelaide College in Booker Falls, Michigan. The discovery of a cache of letters received by a student who held the same position Myrtle now holds, Yvette Sinclair, shortly before she was found strangled to death in the same library some...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cozy Cat Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRIStonehouse, Frederick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery Color Studios 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 363.123 STOWalker, John A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: J.A. Walker 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.2 WALWalker, John A.
Summary: The name of this book may be kind of misleading, beause what started out to be a weekly Fish Report in the local paper turned into tales from a U.P. (Michigan's Upper Peninsula) Game Warden. It kind of became a weekly story about working as a Game Warden and growing up in God's Country, Michigan's U.P.
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Publisher / Publication Date: J.A. Walker 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.2 WALHeywood, Joseph.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HeyCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MI MYSTERY HEYCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS HEYWalker, John A.
Contents: Yooper Reality Check -- Hunting Shacks -- A Game Warden's Wifee -- Buddies in Uniform -- Yesteryears -- Proper Training, But Maybe Not To Bright -- Dedication Story -- Grandpa's Big Buck -- My Opinion -- Judges, Make For Interesting People -- Lucky Me -- Kids, Please Listen -- Youth -- I really Shouldn't Tell You This, But -- I Hate Trailers -- Christmas of the 90's?
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Publisher / Publication Date: J.A.W.'s Pub. 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.2 WALMonson, Ander
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sarabande Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction MonsonMurdoch, Angus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: R.W. Drier and L.G. Koepel 1964
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1 available in Michigan Room, Call number: MI 622.34 Murdoch 1943Hamilton, Steve
Summary: After Alex McKnight saves a boat of people who crashed in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, he never expects to see them again. But the men he saved are deadly smugglers, and now Alex must do damage control.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Midwestern Guides 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.749 HUNCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Michigan Room, Call number: MI 977.49 HUNTBrogan, Earl
Summary: "Roy Shea has never been one to make waves. But he's noticed some changes in his beloved Upper Peninsula, changes he's not entirely comfortable with. When two strangers come to town, Roy finds himself in more trouble than he ever bargained for-as do the strangers, as the ghosts of the Peninsula take a sudden interest in human affairs. Before long, the supernatural and natural, the past and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Star Press 2013