[PDF] The Top Of The Peninsula eBook

Author : Randy Kluck
Publisher :
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 39,9 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Bars (Drinking establishments)
ISBN : 9780615566214

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A travel guide featuring over 100 of the best bars in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

Author : Ron Jolly
Publisher : Petoskey Co-Pub
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,49 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Upper Peninsula (Mich.)
ISBN : 9780472032488

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The most up-to-date and complete reference source on the Upper Peninsula

Author : Mary Hunt
Publisher :
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 23,69 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN :

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Recommends where to eat, stay, and camp. Describes natural attractions, outdoor recreation, trails, beaches, history, geology, shops--with honest, appreciative discernment. Many annotated maps.

Author : Arthur W. Thurner
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 17,64 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780814323960

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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.

Author : Lon L. Emerick
Publisher : North Country Publishing (MI)
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 27,98 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN :

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A high-spirited humorous look at a special land, and the challenges of living in a remote region with more trees than people, long winters and two-track roads. Visitors are warned about the climate, insects, wildlife, local resdients and other potential "dangers." In a more serious epilogue, the author asks that visitors tread gently on the land and fold themselves into the Upper Peninsula way of life that its residents hold dear.

Author : Kath Usitalo
Publisher : Reedy Press LLC
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 18,72 MB
Release : 2017-04-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1681060884

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Touring Michigan's Upper Peninsula (U.P.) is like taking a two-week trip by station wagon. Not in terms of time—you can sample plenty if four days is all you have. It’s about stepping back and appreciating a place of raw scenic beauty dotted with roadside attractions, blinker-light towns, rustic cabins and hand-painted signs advertising smoked fish and homemade jam. With 100 Things to Do in the Upper Peninsula Before You Die, discover a land mostly surrounded by the Great Lakes Huron, Michigan and Superior, linked to the state’s Mitten-shaped Lower Peninsula by a five-mile suspension bridge spanning the Straits of Mackinac. The U.P. surprises with Victorian-era and car-free Mackinac Island, millions of acres of forests, waterfalls, wildlife, remnants of the prosperous copper mining era, and 1,700 miles of spectacular shoreline. It’s home to about 311,000 hardy Yoopers (U.P.-ers), just 3% of Michigan’s population across a third of the state’s territory. Cell phone service can be spotty and the top speed along two-lane highways is 55 mph—all the better to slow down and embrace the U.P., whether you’re in search of extreme sports experiences, soft adventure or a simple slice of solitude.

Author : Richard Mercer Dorson
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 46,35 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299227142

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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.

Author : Russell M. Magnaghi
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 42,49 MB
Release : 2017-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1625856962

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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.