For twelve years Oikarinen, also a Copper Country native, had regularly visited, fished with, and observed ‘Sark.’  This experience inspired the classic Armour: A Lake Superior Fisherman, a chronicle of friendship and sisu enriched with sixty-five of the author’s own striking photographs.

Armour is Oikarinen’s fourth book, following Remembering, Blizzard, and Island Folk and complemented by his contributions to the Detroit News, the Detroit Free Press, the Milwaukee Journal, and the Green Bay Press-Gazette as well as other newspapers and magazines.   First printed in 1991, this engaging portrait of an ‘old timer’ is again available from RCM-Maki Publishers.

Armour—much like its subject—has a special handcrafted and homespun quality that will please anyone interested in the history of the Upper Lakes, or the character that forged it.