Author: Harold Dunbar Corbusier
Publisher: Mackinac State Historic Parks
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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The Diary of Harold Dunbar Corbusier, 1883-1884, 1892, introduces us to the life and times at Fort Mackinac through the eyes of a boy, from his actual diary, first at 10 years of age, then again at age 19. Reading his words allows us to view histoy in a fresh firsthand experience.
Author: Dave McVeigh
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A nostalgic coming-of-age novel set in the summer of 1989 on Mackinac Island, Michigan, where cars are outlawed and bicycles dominate. Jack McGuinn, the protagonist, is a dockporter responsible for transporting tourists' luggage piled high on his bike. He enjoys a dream summer with his family cottage, an exciting job, and a close-knit group of wild, tip-chasing friends.However, Jack's idyllic summer takes a turn when his old friend-turned-rival challenges him to haul a record-setting load of luggage. The bet becomes more than just a test of strength-it symbolizes the future of Mackinac Island, which is on the verge of being transformed by commercial development. Jack must rise to the challenge, with the support of his pals on the dock and the love of Erin, a romantic Irish cellist, to protect the island's charm.This genre-bending novel blends humor, heart, and adventure, drawing comparisons to films like Footloose and Caddyshack. It's a story that resonates with anyone who has ever had a memorable summer job, capturing the essence of friendship, love, and the importance of preserving what matters.
Author: John Read Bailey
Publisher:
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Category : Mackinac Island (Mich.)
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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Author: Fanny Dunbar Corbusier
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806135311
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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Born in Baltimore in 1838, Fanny Dunbar grew up in Louisiana to a family who survived the hardships of the Civil War. An intelligent, sensitive woman, Fanny experienced a radical life change when she met William Henry Corbusier, a Yankee officer and army surgeon. Her memoir recounts their subsequent forty-eight year marriage. The events of Fanny’s life are sometimes amusing but more often dramatic. The Corbusiers moved frequently, but Fanny made moving an art form, often selling all the family possessions to avoid high shipping rates. She learned to cope with primitive living conditions and harsh climates. She raised five sons at posts with no schools. But Fanny took her job as a mother seriously, providing her sons with a broad education and a nurturing home. Corbusier’s long life and her husband’s thirty-nine-year career in the army (recounted in his memoir Soldier, Surgeon, Scholar) allow the reader to experience the period between the Civil War and World War I in totality, including her exceptional memories of the Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurrection. As the recollections of two people whose lives played out against a world panorama, Fanny and William’s memoirs together provide a rare opportunity to examine events of frontier military life from both male and female perspectives. "Mrs. Corbusier writes from the unique perspective of a surgeon’s wife, and we have a picture not only of an army wife, but of an army wife who saw many different aspects of frontier military life and frontier life in general."—Charles M. Robinson, author of General Crook and the Western Frontier and A Good Year to Die: The Story of the Great Sioux War "Of the memoirs penned by wives of nineteenth-century army officers, this is among the best and most detailed. The woman’s perspective of events that transpired in the Indian-fighting army is a much needed counterbalance to the male-dominated histories of these same events."—Darlis Miller, author of Mary Hallock Foote: Author-Illustrator of the American West Fanny Dunbar Corbusier was the career army wife of officer-surgeon William Henry Corbusier. Patricia Y. Stallard, retired federal civil servant and education specialist with the United States Navy Recruiting Command, is the author of Glittering Misery: Dependents of the Indian Fighting Army, published by the University of Oklahoma Press.
Author: Anna Hale
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Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Mackinac Island is a summer vacation spot in Michigan where no cars are allowed, so everyone uses horses and bikes to get around. Thirteen-year-old Hunter Martineau lives on the island year around and knows everything about the place. Well, almost everything. When bikes start to mysteriously disappear all over the island, Hunter is determined to catch the thief and claim the reward money. But that isn't so easy, even for someone as smart as Hunter. Hunter gathers clues and follows suspects to secret places. But every lead turns out to be a dead end - until the thief gives himself away, and Hunter realizes that he is in real danger. Along the way, Hunter makes new friends, grows closer to his dad, and learns why his heritage as an Ottawa Indian is so important to him. Full of fun and surprises, Mystery on Mackinac Island is about adventure, loyalty, and the discoveries of growing up. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author: Keith R. Widder
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Category : Fort Mackinac (Mackinac Island, Mich.)
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Category : Michigan
Languages : en
Pages : 4
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Author: Candice Goucher
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814351557
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
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Journey to the edges of the Great Lakes in this engaging history of picnicking, wilderness, and foodways. This stunning venture into the American picnic explores how innovation, exploitation, and the changing wilderness of Michigan's Upper Peninsula have shaped the experience of eating outdoors. From a photo of her grandmother picnicking in 1911, to the outdoor lunches of miners and loggers, to the picnics of vacationing celebrities like Henry Ford and Ernest Hemingway, author Candice Goucher opens an aperture into historic memories of picnics past to consider what the picnic sparks in our senses and to bring the borderlands of humans and nature into view. Through pictures, postcards, paintings, and recipes, Goucher traces the creation of a modern notion of wilderness as it emerged in the North American imagination and popular culture to navigate an entangled environmental and culinary history of the Upper Peninsula. Drawing on themes from Indigenous knowledge and the African American experience to labor activism and women's history, this tantalizing chronicle offers a taste of Americana, seasoned by the changing global forces of industrialization, transportation, immigration, tourism, war, and climate.
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Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.
Author: William Henry Corbusier
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806135496
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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"An ethnographer and ethnologist, Corbusier published studies of the languages and cultures of the Yavapai, the Sioux, and the Shoshoni. His memoir records his observations on American Indian dances and ceremonies and his medical treatment of prominent figures, such as Sarah Winnemucca, Red Cloud, and American Horse."--BOOK JACKET.
