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Forgotten Tales of Michigan's Upper Peninsula

Author : Lisa A. Shiel
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614236011
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Forgotten Tales of Michigan's Upper Peninsula written by Lisa A. Shiel and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little known tales and lore from Michigan's Upper Peninsula uncover mysteries, curses, and strange beasts in this collection of offbeat and fascinating stories. That's the best I've ever seen you look," the barber said to the corpse. What kind of filthy decedent could inspire such derision? Learn the answer and read myriad other little-known tales from Michigan's northernmost region in Forgotten Tales of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Find out what happened after an aggrieved husband aimed a gun at his wife's lover and then asked the crowd, "Shall I shoot him?" Meet the sleeping man who rode the rails without a train. Discover the truth behind the rumors that one mining town was cursed with the ten plagues of Egypt, and learn why hugs terrified an entire city. And what were those hairy, bipedal beasts haunting the woods? Join Yooper Lisa A. Shiel as she brings to the fore these wonderfully offbeat and all-but-forgotten tales from the UP's history.

True Tales

Author : Mikel B. Classen
Publisher : Loving Healing Press
ISBN 13 : 1615996354
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book True Tales written by Mikel B. Classen and published by Loving Healing Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Were Pioneer Days Really Like in the U.P.? The combination of mining, maritime and lumbering history created a culture in the U.P. that is unique to the Midwest. Discover true stories of the rough and dangerous times of the Upper Peninsula frontier that are as enjoyable as they are educational. You'll find no conventional romantic or whitewashed history here. Instead, you will be astonished by the true hardships and facets of trying to settle a frontier sandwiched among the three Great Lakes. These pages are populated by Native Americans and the European immigrants, looking for their personal promised land-whether to raise families, avoid the law, start a new life or just get rich... no matter what it took. Mineral hunters, outlaws, men of honor creating civilization out of wilderness and the women of strength that accompanied them, the Upper Peninsula called to all. Among the eye-opening stories, you'll find True Tales includes: • Dan Seavey, the infamous pirate based out of Escanaba • Angelique Mott, who was marooned with her husband on Isle Royale for 9 months with just a handful of provisions and no weapons or tools • Vigilantes who broke up the notorious sex trafficking rings - protected by stockades, gunmen, and feral dogs - in Seney, Sac Bay, Ewen, Trout Creek, Ontonagon and Bruce Crossing • Klaus L. Hamringa, the lightkeeper hero who received a commendation of valor for saving the crews of the Monarch and Kiowa shipwrecks • The strange story of stagecoach robber Reimund (Black Bart) Holzhey • The whimsical tale of how Christmas, Michigan got its moniker • The backstories of famous pioneers, such as Peter White, George Shiras III, Governor Chase Osborn and many others This book is a gold mine of vacation possibilities, providing dozens of fascinating little-known facts about many of the innumerable attractions found in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. With the aid of a near countless parade of carefully selected historical images, Mikel paints a picture the reader will not ever forget. -- Michael Carrier, author of Murder on Sugar Island (Jack Handler mysteries) Learn more at www.MikelBClassen.com From Modern History Press

Forgotten Tales of Michigan's Lower Peninsula

Author : Alan Naldrett
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 162585191X
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Forgotten Tales of Michigan's Lower Peninsula written by Alan Naldrett and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-19 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of Michigan's most noteworthy yarns and compelling characters were lost down the corridors of history--until now. Discover the Nain Rouge, that "Demon from the Strait," spotted everywhere from the Battle of Bloody Run in 1763 to the Detroit Riot in 1967. Meet folks like Major Stickney, who named his sons One and Two and his youngest daughter Indiana. Inspect the Toledo War's ill-equipped militia and sort through an armament that included a barrel of whiskey and broom handles from the local hardware store. Spend time with "Mad Anthony" Wayne and pay a visit to Cadillac, the wickedest town in the Midwest. Author Alan Naldrett covers these stories and more in this collection of forgotten tales.

Finns of Michigan's Upper Peninsula

Author : The Finnish American Heritage Center
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 146712978X
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Finns of Michigan's Upper Peninsula written by The Finnish American Heritage Center and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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."--

Upper Peninsula of Michigan: A History

Author : Russsell M. Magnaghi
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1387016814
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Upper Peninsula of Michigan: A History written by Russsell M. Magnaghi and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Get ready to discover the rich history of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. From its earliest days, it has evoked words of love, beauty, mystery, and legend. Drawing on oral histories, newspapers, census data, archives, and libraries, Russell M. Magnaghi has written the seminal history of a very 'special place' as seen through the eyes of the men and women who have lived here- the famous and not so famous. For the first time in over a century, a complete history of the U. P.- from prehistoric origins to the present- is available. The Upper Peninsula of Michigan: A History is an extraordinary book celebrating this unique sense of place."--Back cover.

Lost in Michigan

Author : Mike Sonnenberg
Publisher : Huron Photo
ISBN 13 : 9780999433201
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (332 download)

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Download or read book Lost in Michigan written by Mike Sonnenberg and published by Huron Photo. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the popular Lost In Michigan website that was featured in the Detroit Free Press, It contains locations throughout Michigan, and tells their interesting story. There are over 50 stories and locations that you will find fascinating.

Murder in Michigan's Upper Peninsula

Author : Sonny Longtine
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625848471
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Murder in Michigan's Upper Peninsula written by Sonny Longtine and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Residents of the idyllic villages scattered throughout the Upper Peninsula's richly forested paradise live in quiet comfort for the most part, believing that murder rarely happens in their secluded sanctuary3/4but it does, and more often than they realize. This collection of twenty-four legendary murders spans 160 years of Upper Michigan's history and dispels the notion that murder in the Upper Peninsula is an anomaly. From the bank robber who killed the warden and deputy warden of the Marquette Branch Prison to the unknown assailant who gunned down James Schoolcraft in Sault Ste. Marie, Sonny Longtine explores the tragic events that turned peaceful communities into fear-ridden crime scenes..

Bloodstoppers & Bearwalkers

Author : Richard Mercer Dorson
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299227142
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (271 download)

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Download or read book Bloodstoppers & Bearwalkers written by Richard Mercer Dorson and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remote and rugged, Michigan's Upper Peninsula (fondly known as "the U.P.") has been home to a rich variety of indigenous peoples and Old World immigrants--a heritage deeply embedded in today's "Yooper" culture. Ojibwes, French Canadians, Finns, Cornish, Poles, Italians, Slovenians, and others have all lived here, attracted to the area by its timber, mineral ore, and fishing grounds. Mixing local happenings with supernatural tales and creatively adapting traditional stories to suit changing audiences, the diverse inhabitants of the U.P. have created a wealth of lore populated with tricksters, outlaws, cunning trappers and poachers, eccentric bosses of the mines and lumber camps, "bloodstoppers" gifted with the lifesaving power to stop the flow of blood, "bearwalkers" able to assume the shape of bears, and more. For folklorist Richard M. Dorson, who ventured into the region in the late 1940s, the U.P. was a living laboratory, a storyteller's paradise. Bloodstoppers and Bearwalkers, based on his extensive fieldwork in the area, is his richest and most enduring work. This new edition, with a critical introduction and an appendix of additional tales selected by James P. Leary, restores and expands Dorson's classic contribution to American folklore. Engaging and well informed, the book presents and ponders the folk narratives of the region's loggers, miners, lake sailors, trappers, and townsfolk. Unfolding the variously peculiar and raucous tales of the U.P., Bloodstoppers and Bearwalkers reveals a vital component of Upper Midwest culture and a fascinating cross-section of American society.

Prohibition in the Upper Peninsula

Author : Russell M. Magnaghi
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625856962
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Prohibition in the Upper Peninsula written by Russell M. Magnaghi and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-10 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Temperance workers had their work cut out for them in the Upper Peninsula. It was a wild and woolly place where moonshiners, bootleggers and rumrunners thrived. Al Capone and the Purple Gang came north to keep Canadian whiskey passing through Sault Ste. Marie to Chicago and Detroit. Federal enforcement agent John Fillion double-crossed both his office and the bootleggers. The Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island survived due to gambling and fine Canadian whiskey brought in by rumrunners, sometimes assisted by the Coast Guard. Author Russell M. Magnaghi dives into the raucous history of Yooper Prohibition.

Ojibwa Narratives of Charles and Charlotte Kawbawgam and Jacques LePique, 1893-1895

Author : Charles Kawbawgam
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814325155
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (251 download)

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Download or read book Ojibwa Narratives of Charles and Charlotte Kawbawgam and Jacques LePique, 1893-1895 written by Charles Kawbawgam and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ojibwa Narratives presents a fresh view of an early period of Ojibwa thought and ways of life in Michigan's Upper Peninsula and the south shore of Lake Superior. This fascinating collection of fifty-two narratives features, for the first time, the tales of three nineteenth-century Ojibwa storytellers-Charles and Charlotte Kawbawgam and Jaques LePique-collected by Homer H. Kidder. By the late nineteenth century, typical Ojibwa life had been disrupted by the influx of white developers. But these tales reflect a nostalgic view of an earlier period when the heart of Ojibwa semi-nomadic culture remained intact, a time when the fur trade, together with seasonal roving, traditional transportation, and indigenous practices of child rearing, religious thought, art, and music permeated daily life.

Haunted Copper Country

Author : Lisa A. Shiel
Publisher : Jacobsville Books
ISBN 13 : 1934631493
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Haunted Copper Country written by Lisa A. Shiel and published by Jacobsville Books. This book was released on 2014-12-29 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Evolution Conspiracy, Vol 1

Author : Lisa A. Shiel
Publisher : Jacobsville Books
ISBN 13 : 1934631302
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book The Evolution Conspiracy, Vol 1 written by Lisa A. Shiel and published by Jacobsville Books. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Evolution Conspiracy" exposes the faults in evolutionary theories, the half-truths, and the inconsistencies through a secular lens.

The SideRoad Kids

Author : Sharon M. Kennedy
Publisher : Modern HIstory Press
ISBN 13 : 1615996036
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book The SideRoad Kids written by Sharon M. Kennedy and published by Modern HIstory Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The SideRoad Kids follows a group of boys and girls as they enter the sixth grade in a small town in Michigan's Upper Peninsula during 1957 - 58. This meandering collection of loosely-connected short stories is often humorous, poignant, and sometimes mysterious. Laugh as the kids argue over Halloween treats handed out in Brimley. Recall Dorothy's Hamburgers in Sault Ste. Marie. Follow a Sugar Island snowshoe trail as the kids look for Christmas trees. Wonder what strange blue smoke at Dollar Settlement signifies. Discover the magic hidden in April snowflakes. Although told by the kids, adults will remember their own childhood as they read about Flint, Candy, Squeaky, Katie, and their friends. "Katie, Blew, Squeaky, and Daisy grew up on farms instead of high rises and used their imagination instead of fancy gadgets to make their own fun. An entertaining read for youngsters. And parents, you might enjoy a nostalgic flashback as well. I know I did." --Allia Zobel-Nolan, author of Cat Confessions "The stories in The SideRoad Kids are often humorous. However, underlying them is a sensitive awareness that being a kid, rural or urban, then or now, is not easy. This is an enjoyable read that will enlighten today's kids about the past and rekindle memories for older readers." --Jon Stott, author of Paul Bunyan in Michigan "Sharon's stories capture the essence of childhood and growing up in a small community. The antics of The SideRoad Kids will keep you entertained and take you back to a simpler time." --Renee Glass, Senior Production Artist, Mackinac Journal "Sharon Kennedy is an amazing writer who draws you into the lives of her characters and keeps everything relatable. She makes you laugh, makes you think, and makes you want to keep reading. The SideRoad Kids is an entertaining book about a group of children growing up in Northern Michigan." --Kortny Hahn, Senior Staff Writer, Cheboygan Daily Tribune Learn more at www.AuthorSharonKennedy.com From Modern History Press www.ModernHistoryPress.com

Strange Michigan

Author : Linda S. Godfrey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781931599849
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Strange Michigan written by Linda S. Godfrey and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Alba to Ypsilanti, if you are looking for the kooky, bizarre, and just plain weird, you can't top Michigan.

Relic of the Ancient Ones

Author : Lisa A. Shiel
Publisher : Jacobsville Books
ISBN 13 : 1934631140
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Relic of the Ancient Ones written by Lisa A. Shiel and published by Jacobsville Books. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mysterious, power-mad enemy is bent on snatching ancient artifacts, and murdering anyone who gets in their way. Despite their relentless efforts, they have failed to track down the one relic they most desperately need. Brilliant but unemployed librarian Erin Turner becomes the pawn in their vicious conspiracy, forced to hunt for a relic no one can even describe but if she can't find it, everyone she loves will die. To find the relic, Erin must team up with disgraced archaeologist Alex MacKay on a pulse-pounding quest to rip open a secret buried so deep that unearthing it just might destroy the world. Join the adventure buy "Relic of the Ancient Ones" today

The Hunt for Bigfoot

Author : Lisa A. Shiel
Publisher : Jacobsville Books
ISBN 13 : 0974655309
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (746 download)

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Download or read book The Hunt for Bigfoot written by Lisa A. Shiel and published by Jacobsville Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Katy Gallagher and her mentor, historian Charlie Bergren, scour the Earth for proof current evolutionary theories are flawed. Their quest turns dangerous when Katy is threatened and Charlie vanishes. To find him, Katy must join forces with his son, Rick, who's a skeptic about everything Katy believes in. Plunging into the depths of Michigan's north woods, Katy and Rick tumble into a double-edged mystery -- a hidden Bigfoot society protected by an ancient race with highly advanced technology who will stop at nothing to keep their secrets; and a mysterious billionaire willing, for his own reasons, to kill to preserve the Bigfoot legend. To stay alive, Katy and Rick must unravel an enigma half a billion years in the weaving. They must find the creatures science says cannot exist.

Faces of Bigfoot

Author : Lisa A. Shiel
Publisher : Jacobsville Books
ISBN 13 : 1934631450
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Faces of Bigfoot written by Lisa A. Shiel and published by Jacobsville Books. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A twig cracks. An unearthly scream echoes through the forest. How would you react? In these three stories, experience the thrill and the overwhelming impact of an encounter with a legend, as normal people run headlong into the mysterious and seemingly unreal creatures that lurk off the beaten track. Dive into the mystery -- buy Faces of Bigfoot today!