A Guide to Michigan's Historic Keweenaw Copper District
Title | A Guide to Michigan's Historic Keweenaw Copper District PDF eBook |
Author | Lawrence J. Molloy |
Publisher | |
Pages | 118 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Copper mines and mining |
ISBN | 9780979177217 |
Exploring Michigan's Historic Copper Country
Title | Exploring Michigan's Historic Copper Country PDF eBook |
Author | Celeste Haapala |
Publisher | Isle Royale Natural History Association |
Pages | 45 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Copper mines and mining |
ISBN | 9780935289176 |
The Making of a Mining District
Title | The Making of a Mining District PDF eBook |
Author | David J. Krause |
Publisher | Wayne State University Press |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780814324073 |
A critical examination of the people and events that led to the gradual recognition of the mining potential of the unique native copper deposits of Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula, which culminated in the first great mining boom in American history. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Beyond the Boundaries
Title | Beyond the Boundaries PDF eBook |
Author | Larry Lankton |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
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.
From Paternalism to Privatization
Title | From Paternalism to Privatization PDF eBook |
Author | Donna Zimmermman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 526 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Michigan Copper Mining District Historic Resources Management Plan
Title | Michigan Copper Mining District Historic Resources Management Plan PDF eBook |
Author | Deborah L. Dobson-Brown |
Publisher | |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Historic buildings |
ISBN |
Plan also contains information on: social, geologic and prehistoric history of Keweenaw Peninsula; Copper Trail; chronology of copper boom.
Prehistoric Copper Mining in Michigan
Title | Prehistoric Copper Mining in Michigan PDF eBook |
Author | John R. Halsey |
Publisher | U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY |
Pages | 351 |
Release | 2018-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0915703890 |
Isle Royale and the counties that line the northwest coast of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula are called Copper Country because of the rich deposits of native copper there. In the nineteenth century, explorers and miners discovered evidence of prehistoric copper mining in this region. They used those “ancient diggings” as a guide to establishing their own, much larger mines, and in the process, destroyed the archaeological record left by the prehistoric miners. Using mining reports, newspaper accounts, personal letters, and other sources, this book reconstructs what these nineteenth-century discoverers found, how they interpreted the material remains of prehistoric activity, and what they did with the stone, wood, and copper tools they found at the prehistoric sites. “This volume represents an exhaustive compilation of the early written and published accounts of mines and mining in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. It will prove a valuable resource to current and future scholars. Through these early historic accounts of prospectors and miners, Halsey provides a vivid picture of what once could be seen.” —John M. O’Shea, curator of Great Lakes Archaeology, University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology