Author: Gene L. LaBerge
Publisher: Tucson, Ariz. : Geoscience Press
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Considered one of the classic geologic areas of the world, the Lake Superior region is one of the most interesting geological areas in North America. An excellent resource for the reader, this book includes examples, photos, maps, and diagrams of the geology of this region.
Geology of the Lake Superior Region
Author: Gene L. LaBerge
Publisher: Tucson, Ariz. : Geoscience Press
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Considered one of the classic geologic areas of the world, the Lake Superior region is one of the most interesting geological areas in North America. An excellent resource for the reader, this book includes examples, photos, maps, and diagrams of the geology of this region.
Publisher: Tucson, Ariz. : Geoscience Press
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Considered one of the classic geologic areas of the world, the Lake Superior region is one of the most interesting geological areas in North America. An excellent resource for the reader, this book includes examples, photos, maps, and diagrams of the geology of this region.
Beyond the Boundaries
Author: Larry Lankton
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199761159
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Spanning the years 1840-1875, Beyond the Boundaries focuses on the settlement of Upper Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula, telling the story of reluctant pioneers who attempted to establish a decent measure of comfort, control, and security in what was in many ways a hostile environment. Moving beyond the technological history of the period found in his previous book Cradle to the Grave: Life, Work, and Death at the Lake Superior Copper Mines (OUP 1991), Lankton here focuses on the people of this region and how the copper mining affected their daily lives. A truly first-rate social history, Beyond the Boundaries will appeal to historians of the frontier and of Michigan and the Great Lakes region, as well as historians of technology, labor, and everyday life.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199761159
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Spanning the years 1840-1875, Beyond the Boundaries focuses on the settlement of Upper Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula, telling the story of reluctant pioneers who attempted to establish a decent measure of comfort, control, and security in what was in many ways a hostile environment. Moving beyond the technological history of the period found in his previous book Cradle to the Grave: Life, Work, and Death at the Lake Superior Copper Mines (OUP 1991), Lankton here focuses on the people of this region and how the copper mining affected their daily lives. A truly first-rate social history, Beyond the Boundaries will appeal to historians of the frontier and of Michigan and the Great Lakes region, as well as historians of technology, labor, and everyday life.
The Lake Superior Images
Author: Craig Blacklock
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780963499189
Category : Superior, Lake
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
By Minnesota's premier photographer, Craig Blacklock, Lake Superior Images has become a classic. The original hardcover Lake Superior images made the Minneapolis Star Tribune bestseller list, and at $65 retail sold out its first printing of 10,000 copies in less than 5 months. Now available in a slightly smaller softcover edition, Lake Superior Images offers readers a fascinating glimpse of some of the most remote sections of Lake Superior's shoreline.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780963499189
Category : Superior, Lake
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
By Minnesota's premier photographer, Craig Blacklock, Lake Superior Images has become a classic. The original hardcover Lake Superior images made the Minneapolis Star Tribune bestseller list, and at $65 retail sold out its first printing of 10,000 copies in less than 5 months. Now available in a slightly smaller softcover edition, Lake Superior Images offers readers a fascinating glimpse of some of the most remote sections of Lake Superior's shoreline.
Lake Superior Copper and the Indians
Author: James B. Griffin
Publisher: U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
ISBN: 1949098281
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
In this classic work, editor James B. Griffin presents research on the prehistoric inhabitants of the Lake Superior region. Griffin and Roy W. Drier report on Isle Royale excavations and archaeological finds; Griffin and George I. Quimby write about prehistoric copper pits and related artifacts in Ontario and Manitoba; William C. Root reports on copper artifacts from southern Michigan; and Tyler Bastian writes a review of metallographic studies of prehistoric copper artifacts in North America.
Publisher: U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
ISBN: 1949098281
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
In this classic work, editor James B. Griffin presents research on the prehistoric inhabitants of the Lake Superior region. Griffin and Roy W. Drier report on Isle Royale excavations and archaeological finds; Griffin and George I. Quimby write about prehistoric copper pits and related artifacts in Ontario and Manitoba; William C. Root reports on copper artifacts from southern Michigan; and Tyler Bastian writes a review of metallographic studies of prehistoric copper artifacts in North America.
The Sandstone Architecture of the Lake Superior Region
Author: Kathryn Bishop Eckert
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814328071
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Eckert stresses the importance of the building materials as she explores the architectural history of a region whose builders wanted to reflect the local landscape.
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814328071
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Eckert stresses the importance of the building materials as she explores the architectural history of a region whose builders wanted to reflect the local landscape.
Chippewa Customs
Author: Frances Densmore
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN: 0873511425
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
An authoritative source for the tribal history, customs, legends, traditions, art, music, economy, and leisure activities of the Ojibwe people.
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN: 0873511425
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
An authoritative source for the tribal history, customs, legends, traditions, art, music, economy, and leisure activities of the Ojibwe people.
Hollowed Ground
Author: Larry D. Lankton
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814336965
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Details a century and a half of copper mining along Upper Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula, from the arrival of the first incorporated mines in the 1840s until the closing of the last mine in the mid-1990s. In Hollowed Ground, author Larry Lankton tells the story of two copper industries on Lake Superior-native copper mining, which produced about 11 billion pounds of the metal from the 1840s until the late 1960s, and copper sulfide mining, which began in the 1950s and produced another 4.4 billion pounds of copper through the 1990s. In addition to documenting companies and their mines, mills, and smelters, Hollowed Ground is also a community study. It examines the region's population and ethnic mix, which was a direct result of the mining industry, and the companies' paternalistic involvement in community building. While this book covers the history of the entire Lake Superior mining industry, it particularly focuses on the three biggest, most important, and longest-lived companies: Calumet & Hecla, Copper Range, and Quincy. Lankton shows the extent of the companies' influence over their mining locations, as they constructed the houses and neighborhoods of their company towns, set the course of local schools, saw that churches got land to build on, encouraged the growth of commercial villages on the margin of a mine, and even provided pasturage for workers' milk cows and space for vegetable gardens. Lankton also traces the interconnected fortunes of the mining communities and their companies through times of bustling economic growth and periods of decline and closure. Hollowed Ground presents a wealth of images from Upper Michigan's mining towns, reflecting a century and a half of unique community and industrial history. Local historians, industrial historians, and anyone interested in the history of Michigan's Upper Peninsula will appreciate this informative volume.
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814336965
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Details a century and a half of copper mining along Upper Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula, from the arrival of the first incorporated mines in the 1840s until the closing of the last mine in the mid-1990s. In Hollowed Ground, author Larry Lankton tells the story of two copper industries on Lake Superior-native copper mining, which produced about 11 billion pounds of the metal from the 1840s until the late 1960s, and copper sulfide mining, which began in the 1950s and produced another 4.4 billion pounds of copper through the 1990s. In addition to documenting companies and their mines, mills, and smelters, Hollowed Ground is also a community study. It examines the region's population and ethnic mix, which was a direct result of the mining industry, and the companies' paternalistic involvement in community building. While this book covers the history of the entire Lake Superior mining industry, it particularly focuses on the three biggest, most important, and longest-lived companies: Calumet & Hecla, Copper Range, and Quincy. Lankton shows the extent of the companies' influence over their mining locations, as they constructed the houses and neighborhoods of their company towns, set the course of local schools, saw that churches got land to build on, encouraged the growth of commercial villages on the margin of a mine, and even provided pasturage for workers' milk cows and space for vegetable gardens. Lankton also traces the interconnected fortunes of the mining communities and their companies through times of bustling economic growth and periods of decline and closure. Hollowed Ground presents a wealth of images from Upper Michigan's mining towns, reflecting a century and a half of unique community and industrial history. Local historians, industrial historians, and anyone interested in the history of Michigan's Upper Peninsula will appreciate this informative volume.
Lake Superior
Author: Grace Lee Nute
Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816635818
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
History of Lake Superior, from the eariest explorations to the explosion of industry on its shore, takes the reader on a tour from Dulutu to Isle Royale, from Thunder Bay to Sault Ste. Marie, from Pictured Rocks to the Apostle Islands. Tells tales of the captains of the lake boats, the growing commerce, the contributions from fishing, fur, mines, lumber businesses, the characters of the cities and their people.
Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816635818
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
History of Lake Superior, from the eariest explorations to the explosion of industry on its shore, takes the reader on a tour from Dulutu to Isle Royale, from Thunder Bay to Sault Ste. Marie, from Pictured Rocks to the Apostle Islands. Tells tales of the captains of the lake boats, the growing commerce, the contributions from fishing, fur, mines, lumber businesses, the characters of the cities and their people.
Great Lakes Rocks
Author: Stephen E Kesler
Publisher: University of MICHIGAN REGIONAL
ISBN: 0472053809
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
The geologic story of the Great Lakes region is one of the most remarkable of any place on Earth. Great Lakes Rocks takes readers on this fascinating journey through geologic history, beginning with an investigation of the surface features—the hills and valleys, waterfalls and caves, and the Great Lakes themselves—that we encounter on a daily basis. From there the book digs deeper into the past, and readers learn about the amazing techniques geologists have used to reconstruct the events that shaped this region millions and even billions of years before humans set foot on Earth. Throughout, the book gives special attention to the link between the region’s geology and its modern history, including the impacts of geology on settlement patterns as well as the development of industries and the present-day economy. Other discussed topics include natural hazards that are geologic in nature, including earthquakes, floods, landslides, and coastal erosion, as well as information on rocks, minerals, and ancient life seen in fossils. Written for nonspecialist readers, this book provides a detailed but easy-to-follow introduction to the geology of the Great Lakes region, and it is an ideal fit for introductory geology courses, including those aimed at nonscience majors.
Publisher: University of MICHIGAN REGIONAL
ISBN: 0472053809
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
The geologic story of the Great Lakes region is one of the most remarkable of any place on Earth. Great Lakes Rocks takes readers on this fascinating journey through geologic history, beginning with an investigation of the surface features—the hills and valleys, waterfalls and caves, and the Great Lakes themselves—that we encounter on a daily basis. From there the book digs deeper into the past, and readers learn about the amazing techniques geologists have used to reconstruct the events that shaped this region millions and even billions of years before humans set foot on Earth. Throughout, the book gives special attention to the link between the region’s geology and its modern history, including the impacts of geology on settlement patterns as well as the development of industries and the present-day economy. Other discussed topics include natural hazards that are geologic in nature, including earthquakes, floods, landslides, and coastal erosion, as well as information on rocks, minerals, and ancient life seen in fossils. Written for nonspecialist readers, this book provides a detailed but easy-to-follow introduction to the geology of the Great Lakes region, and it is an ideal fit for introductory geology courses, including those aimed at nonscience majors.
Along the Bowstring, Or South Shore of Lake Superior
Author: Julian Ralph
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
This amply-illustrated promotional guidebook, issued by the General Passenger Department of the Duluth South Shore & Atlantic Railway, describes in great detail the sights and recreational opportunities afforded visitors along Lake Superior's South Shore. The author follows the route from Sault Ste. Marie west to Duluth, including Marquette, Presque Isle and Macinac as well as other major stopover points, providing much local and geological history along the way. In words and pictures, the book depicts picturesque landmarks and scenic landscapes, mining, manufacturing, logging operations, fishing, hunting, and other wilderness activities, with some attention to the region's Indian groups.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
This amply-illustrated promotional guidebook, issued by the General Passenger Department of the Duluth South Shore & Atlantic Railway, describes in great detail the sights and recreational opportunities afforded visitors along Lake Superior's South Shore. The author follows the route from Sault Ste. Marie west to Duluth, including Marquette, Presque Isle and Macinac as well as other major stopover points, providing much local and geological history along the way. In words and pictures, the book depicts picturesque landmarks and scenic landscapes, mining, manufacturing, logging operations, fishing, hunting, and other wilderness activities, with some attention to the region's Indian groups.