Copper Country Postcards - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Copper Country Postcards write by Nancy Ann Sanderson. This book was released on 2005. Copper Country Postcards available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Women of the Copper Country
The Women of the Copper Country - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Women of the Copper Country write by Mary Doria Russell. This book was released on 2019-08-06. The Women of the Copper Country available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the bestselling and award-winning author of The Sparrow comes an inspiring historical novel about “America’s Joan of Arc” Annie Clements—the courageous woman who started a rebellion by leading a strike against the largest copper mining company in the world. In July 1913, twenty-five-year-old Annie Clements had seen enough of the world to know that it was unfair. She’s spent her whole life in the copper-mining town of Calumet, Michigan where men risk their lives for meager salaries—and had barely enough to put food on the table and clothes on their backs. The women labor in the houses of the elite, and send their husbands and sons deep underground each day, dreading the fateful call of the company man telling them their loved ones aren’t coming home. When Annie decides to stand up for herself, and the entire town of Calumet, nearly everyone believes she may have taken on more than she is prepared to handle. In Annie’s hands lie the miners’ fortunes and their health, her husband’s wrath over her growing independence, and her own reputation as she faces the threat of prison and discovers a forbidden love. On her fierce quest for justice, Annie will discover just how much she is willing to sacrifice for her own independence and the families of Calumet. From one of the most versatile writers in contemporary fiction, this novel is an authentic and moving historical portrait of the lives of the men and women of the early 20th century labor movement, and of a turbulent, violent political landscape that may feel startlingly relevant to today.
Strangers and Sojourners
Strangers and Sojourners - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Strangers and Sojourners write by Arthur W. Thurner. This book was released on 1994. Strangers and Sojourners available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Arthur Thurner tells of the enormous struggle of the diverse immigrants who built and sustained energetic towns and communities, creating a lively civilization in what was essentially a forest wilderness. Their story is one of incredible economic success and grim tragedy in which mine workers daily risked their lives. By highlighting the roles women, African Americans, and Native Americans played in the growth of the Keweenaw community, Thurner details a neglected and ignored past. The history of Keweenaw Peninsula for the past one hundred and fifty years reflects contemporary American culture--a multicultural, pluralistic, democratic welfare state still undergoing evolution. Strangers and Sojourners, with its integration of social and economic history, for the first time tells the complete story of the people from the Keweenaw Peninsula's Baraga, Houghton, Keweenaw, and Ontonagon counties.
A Guide to Michigan's Historic Keweenaw Copper District
A Guide to Michigan's Historic Keweenaw Copper District - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Guide to Michigan's Historic Keweenaw Copper District write by Lawrence J. Molloy. This book was released on 2008. A Guide to Michigan's Historic Keweenaw Copper District available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Beyond the Boundaries
Beyond the Boundaries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond the Boundaries write by Larry Lankton. This book was released on 1999-05-06. Beyond the Boundaries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
