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Book

True tales : the forgotten history of Michigan's Upper Peninsula

Call Number

  • H 977.49 C6143.1 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Ann Arbor, MI : Modern History Press, 2022.

Physical Description

149 pages illustrations 24 cm

Summary

"A broad survey of lesser known but important historical figures, events, and locales in Michigan's Upper Peninsula spanning the 18th through 20th centuries. Vignettes including such diverse personages as Peter White, Dan Seavey, Reimund Holzhey, Mother Ontonagon, and others"--

Contents

  • Rock of ages : the tale of the Ontonagon Boulder
  • Escanaba Buccaneer
  • Lost Bonanza
  • Starvation on Isle Royale
  • the story of Angelique Mott
  • One time train
  • Grand Marais, surviving on the shore of Lake Superior
  • George Shiras III
  • photography by camera and flashlight
  • Stockades of terror
  • Art of the shamas
  • The sinking of the south shore
  • Mother Ontonagon
  • How Christmas, Michigan got its name
  • November victims, the trial and tragedy of the steamer Myron
  • Peter White
  • the founding of Marquette and the story surrounding it
  • The strange case of Reimund Holzhey.

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