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Book

Northern border : essays on Michigan's Upper Peninsula and beyond

Call Number

  • H 977.49 N8743 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Marquette, Mich. : Northern Michigan University Press, 2014.

Physical Description

339 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes

"In honor of Russell Magnaghi"--Cover.

This festschrift is published to honor the career of Russell Magnaghi, upon completion of 45 years as professor of history at Northern Michigan University,

Contents

  • Preface / David Haynes
  • Introduction: A Festschrift for Professor Magnaghi
  • Story maps / Robert Archibald
  • An immense world of delight: The U.P. in prose / Ted Bays
  • Witness to five centuries: The history of Ste. Anne's Parish, Mackinac Island / Steven C. Brisson
  • Hungarians in Michigan's Copper Country / Bernard Cook
  • "A most unpleasant circumstance" : Personality and provocation at Fort Wilkins / Thomas G. Friggens
  • "Holing up": The origins, evolution, lifestyle and work of shackers in the upper Great Lakes / Troy Henderson
  • Northern Michigan University and the Upper Peninsula / John X. Jamrich and David Haynes
  • The blind. Shoot shack as sacred space / Michael T. Marsden
  • The impact of alcohol on the Indians of the Great Lakes/Upper Mississippi region: Some first hand acounts of the "drunken frolic" / Bernard C. Peters
  • Divided they fall? The role of ethnicity in labor actions on Michigan's iron ranges in the Nineteenth Century / Terry S. Reynolds
  • Reluctant revolutionaries: Finnish iron miners and the failure of radical labor and socialism on the Marquette iron range, 1900-1914 / Marcus C. Robyns, Katelyn Weber and Laura Lipp
  • Ely Township, in Marquette County, Michigan, during the Great Depression / Lori Taylor-Blitz
  • Canadian immigrants in the Upper Peninsula / Daniel Truckey
  • Cecilia Kangas, a Gossard girl / Phyllis Wong
  • Industry, labor, and the right to smoke in Michigan's arsenal of democracy / Gregory Wood
  • About the authors
  • Selected bibliography of Russell Magnaghi.

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