Beyond the boundaries: life and landscape at the Lake Superior copper mines, 1840-1875
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1. Verfasser: Lankton, Larry D. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Oxford University Press 1997
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-239) and index
ONE: WATER, WOODS, AND WINTER: A Special Sense of Place; TWO: HEAVING UP JONAH: The Travail of Travel; THREE: SETTLING IN: Camps, Communities, Houses, and Hotels; FOUR: A LAPFUL OF APPLES: Foodways in the Far North; FIVE: KEEPING HOUSE: All the Work of the Family; SIX: TASKS AT HAND: Making a Living: Men and Women, Boys and Girls; SEVEN: SAINTS AND SCHOLARS: Village Churches and Schools; EIGHT: THE SINS OF THE BODY: Maladies, Medicines, and Frontier Physicians; NINE: ICE CARNIVALS, CAMELS, AND SUNDAY TROMBONES: Pioneer Pastimes
This is a social history of the families of the Keweenaw Peninsula area of Upper Michigan, from 1840 to 1875 when the district's main industry was copper mining. It is the story of these "reluctant pioneers", who survived in what was, in many ways, a hostile environment
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 247 p.)
ISBN:1429400234
9781429400237
0195355334
9780195355338
9780195108040
0195108043
1280529040
9781280529047

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