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Book

So cold a sky : upper Michigan weather stories

Call Numbers

  • 977.49 B677 (CEN)
  • H 977.49 B677 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Negaunee, Mich. : Cold Sky Publishing, 2006

Physical Description

viii, 320 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.

Contents

  • Pt. 1, The first European explorers in the Lake Superior region
  • Alexander Henry's adventures in the Lake Superior region
  • Weather during the earliest American settlement: 1820s-1830s
  • Weather of the early mining boom: 1840s-1850s
  • The snowshoe priest
  • pt. 2 Weather events of the modern era: 1864 to present, Cold waves, cold winters
  • Snowstorms, snowy winters
  • Late season snows, 1870s-1880s
  • Floods
  • Heat waves, hot weather
  • Severe weather
  • Fire weather
  • Autumn gales.

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