Copper Country Postcards
Author | : Nancy Ann Sanderson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Keweenaw Peninsula (Mich.) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Nancy Ann Sanderson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Keweenaw Peninsula (Mich.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mary Doria Russell |
Publisher | : Atria Books |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2019-08-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1982109580 |
From the bestselling and award-winning author of The Sparrow comes an inspiring historical novel about “America’s Joan of Arc” Annie Clements—the courageous woman who started a rebellion by leading a strike against the largest copper mining company in the world. In July 1913, twenty-five-year-old Annie Clements had seen enough of the world to know that it was unfair. She’s spent her whole life in the copper-mining town of Calumet, Michigan where men risk their lives for meager salaries—and had barely enough to put food on the table and clothes on their backs. The women labor in the houses of the elite, and send their husbands and sons deep underground each day, dreading the fateful call of the company man telling them their loved ones aren’t coming home. When Annie decides to stand up for herself, and the entire town of Calumet, nearly everyone believes she may have taken on more than she is prepared to handle. In Annie’s hands lie the miners’ fortunes and their health, her husband’s wrath over her growing independence, and her own reputation as she faces the threat of prison and discovers a forbidden love. On her fierce quest for justice, Annie will discover just how much she is willing to sacrifice for her own independence and the families of Calumet. From one of the most versatile writers in contemporary fiction, this novel is an authentic and moving historical portrait of the lives of the men and women of the early 20th century labor movement, and of a turbulent, violent political landscape that may feel startlingly relevant to today.
Author | : Arthur W. Thurner |
Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780814323960 |
Arthur Thurner tells of the enormous struggle of the diverse immigrants who built and sustained energetic towns and communities, creating a lively civilization in what was essentially a forest wilderness. Their story is one of incredible economic success and grim tragedy in which mine workers daily risked their lives. By highlighting the roles women, African Americans, and Native Americans played in the growth of the Keweenaw community, Thurner details a neglected and ignored past. The history of Keweenaw Peninsula for the past one hundred and fifty years reflects contemporary American culture--a multicultural, pluralistic, democratic welfare state still undergoing evolution. Strangers and Sojourners, with its integration of social and economic history, for the first time tells the complete story of the people from the Keweenaw Peninsula's Baraga, Houghton, Keweenaw, and Ontonagon counties.
Author | : Lawrence J. Molloy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Copper mines and mining |
ISBN | : 9780979177217 |
Author | : Annie Graeme Larkin |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0738599964 |
Visually, the Bisbee of today remains a community frozen in time, with Main Street retaining its character from 1910. The discovery of copper deposits in the Mule Mountains brought forth a wealth that enabled a substantial community. Profitable mining ventures and a need for labor drew thousands of miners from around the world to work in Bisbee. These individuals added a distinct flavor to the area. Like countless other Western mining camps, Bisbee evolved from a rough frontier community surviving disastrous fires and floods into a town with a substantial population and solid foundation. Bisbee's seemingly inexhaustible mineral wealth resulted in the community becoming a center of economic and political power in an emerging territory on its way to statehood. It was Arizona's greatest copper camp.
Author | : Lisa A. Shiel |
Publisher | : Jacobsville Books |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 2014-12-29 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 1934631493 |
What lurks in the mysterious woods of Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula? With a history as deep and rich as the shadows in the forest, the Keweenaw—nicknamed the Copper Country—boasts ample fodder for tales of tortured spirits and playful tricksters. From ghosts of the copper mining industry to kissing specters, Haunted Copper Country whisks you away on a whirlwind tour of this Upper Peninsula treasure. A brief history of each location provides insight into the origins of the haunted tales, many never before published and culled from the author's interviews with witnesses and ghost hunters. Explore the spooky side of the Keweenaw—if you dare.
Author | : Larry Lankton |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 568 |
Release | : 1993-02-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 019028207X |
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 harmonious, even while new, large companies obliterated traditional forms of organization and work within the industry. By 1890, however, the Lake Superior copper industry of upper Michigan started facing many challenges, including strong economic competition and a declining profit margin; growing worker dissatisfaction with both living and working conditions; and erosion of the companies' hegemony in a district they once controlled. Lankton traces technological changes within the mines and provides a thorough investigation of mine accidents and safety. He then focuses on social and labor history, dealing especially with the issue of how company paternalism exerted social control over the work force. A social history of technology, Cradle to Grave will appeal to labor, social and business historians.
Author | : Larry Lankton |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1999-05-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780199761159 |
Spanning the years 1840-1875, Beyond the Boundaries focuses on the settlement of Upper Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula, telling the story of reluctant pioneers who attempted to establish a decent measure of comfort, control, and security in what was in many ways a hostile environment. Moving beyond the technological history of the period found in his previous book Cradle to the Grave: Life, Work, and Death at the Lake Superior Copper Mines (OUP 1991), Lankton here focuses on the people of this region and how the copper mining affected their daily lives. A truly first-rate social history, Beyond the Boundaries will appeal to historians of the frontier and of Michigan and the Great Lakes region, as well as historians of technology, labor, and everyday life.
Author | : The Finnish American Heritage Center |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2018-11-19 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 146712978X |
On Midsummer Eve, 1865, more than 30 Finnish and Sami immigrants disembarked from a Great Lakes ship to a place called Hancock, Michigan. At the time, Hancock consisted of nothing more than a small cluster of humble buildings, but it was here, on the outskirts of mid-19th-century civilization, that Finnish settlement in Michigan's Upper Peninsula (UP) took root. Much to the surprise of these new Americans, Midsummer was not a religious holiday marked by feasts in celebration of the season's prolonged sunlight. Rather, the newcomers were immediately hastened into the bowels of the earth to extract copper in pursuit of the American Dream. In short order, hardworking Finnish immigrants became reputable miners, lumberjacks, farmers, maids, and commercial fishermen. A century and a half later, the UP boasts the largest Finnish population outside of the motherland and sustains the determined spirit the Finns call sisu--an influence that remains palpable in all 15 UP counties.
Author | : Susan R. Martin |
Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780814328439 |
This work examines the archaeological record of copper mining in the Lake Superior area.