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Calumet: Copper Country Metropolis

by Dave Engel and Gerry Mantel (2002)

This entertaining book provides an everyday, life-in-motion look at the heydays of Calumet, Michigan (1898-1913) via informative (and often hilarious or moving) news accounts and a TON of great old photographs. In its prime Calumet was truly the Copper Country Metropolis. The Michigan mining capital, now being developed as Keweenaw National Historic Park, enjoys a storied past, unrivaled in the Midwest.

8 1/2 x 11 softcover, 224p., 100 b/w historic photo reproductions, fully indexed.

ISBN: 0-9722292-0-5

See the item below for details of a recently published investigation of 1913's Italian Hall Tragedy. And click on “1913 Massacre” in our Links page for info about a current film project involving Old Calumet.

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Island Folk
The People of Isle Royale

by Peter Oikarinen (1979; new edition 2008)

 

Island Folk, first available in the late 70s, has been unleashed again by the University of Minnesota Press, now in an improved format with additional stories and photos. It explores the pre-park days of commercial fishing families who inhabited Isle Royale, based on the author’s personal interviews and evocative photography.

5 1/2 x 8 softcover, 174p. incl. a map, 2 diagrams, and 38 of the author’s b/w photographs.

ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-5336-2
ISBN-10: 0-8166-5336-4

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To read  “Close Encounters of a Fine Line (Usually 6-lb. test),”
Lake Superior historian Gerry Mantel’s account of his longtime friendship with Peter Oikarinen

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Watermarks
Poems from the Coast of Keweenaw

by Barbara Simila (1996)

A unique Keweenaw style of poetry split into six chapters, written by a Copper Country native who’s not only well-in-touch with her roots but also specializes in trout fishing & gardening, to boot.

6 x 9 softcover, 60p., 8 evocative photographs by the underappreciated photographer Peter Oikarinen.

ISBN: 0-9741784-1-1

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High on the Big Stone Heart
And Further Adventures in the Boreal Heartland

by Charles Wilkins (2009)

Although not set strictly in the Lake Superior basin, there are nevertheless ample reading rewards—particularly the “title track”—awaiting Big Lake lovers in this fitting Hoito sequel.

Likewise, hockey fans will not want to miss the fine chapters on the great “Riot Man” Maurice Richard of Habs fame as well as former Leafs hero Bill Barilko, and for everybody else there's tales aplenty about fishermen (including Rocket Richard and Bill Barilko themselves), trappers, boat builders and swamp hags, all written with a perceptive, humorous and distinctive flair.

6 x 8.8 softcover, 192p.

ISBN-10: 1550028650
ISBN-13: 978-1-55002-865-2

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