Finns of Michigan's Upper Peninsula - 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 Finns of Michigan's Upper Peninsula write by The Finnish American Heritage Center. This book was released on 2018. Finns of Michigan's Upper Peninsula available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "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."--
History of the Finns in Michigan
History of the Finns in Michigan - 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 History of the Finns in Michigan write by Armas Kustaa Ensio Holmio. This book was released on 2001. History of the Finns in Michigan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A history of the Finnish people in Michigan published in English for the first time.
Prohibition in the Upper Peninsula
Prohibition in the Upper Peninsula - 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 Prohibition in the Upper Peninsula write by Russell M. Magnaghi. This book was released on 2017-07-10. Prohibition in the Upper Peninsula available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
So Cold a Sky
So Cold a Sky - 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 So Cold a Sky write by Karl Bohnak. This book was released on 2006. So Cold a Sky available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Murder in Michigan's Upper Peninsula
Murder in Michigan's Upper Peninsula - 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 Murder in Michigan's Upper Peninsula write by Sonny Longtine. This book was released on 2014-02-04. Murder in Michigan's Upper Peninsula available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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..
