Deep Woods Frontier

Narrating the history of Michigan's forest industry, Karamanski provides a dynamic study of an important part of the Upper Peninsula's economy.

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Carl Wade has absolutely no desire to follow in the farmer footsteps of his dad. He is determined to follow his own dream of becoming a wealthy fur trader. This means challenging parental authority to prove he can do it. With only his beloved dog and a few provisions, the 17-year-old sets out on an adventure that takes him through a series of encountersawith Indians, wild animals, boyhood afriends, a a 15-year-old girl (who inadvertently becomes his partner), and even a snake biteaall against the backdrop of a bitter winter in the Georgia frontier. Carlas determination to leave the comforts of home catapults him into shocking, real-life situations in the wild. In each amake or breaka circumstance of the trapping season, his parentsa high principles become his compass. The readeras emotions will run the gamut from delight to fear, as Carl is forced to meet lifeas realities head-on.

This is the story of a young buck who went in search of his father, whom he needed to help out in a family predicament. His journey turned out to be not as easy as he thought. but was one of great danger, excitement and adventure.

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.

Travel north from the upper Midwest’s metropolises, and before long you’re “Up North”—a region that’s hard to define but unmistakable to any resident or tourist. Crops give way to forests, mines (or their remains) mark the landscape, and lakes multiply, becoming ever clearer until you reach the vastness of the Great Lakes. How to characterize this region, as distinct from the agrarian Midwest, is the question North Country seeks to answer, as a congenial group of scholars, journalists, and public intellectuals explores the distinctive landscape, culture, and history that define the northern margins of the American Midwest. From the glacial past to the present day, these essays range across the histories of the Dakota and Ojibwe people, colonial imperial rivalries and immigration, and conflicts between the economic imperatives of resource extraction and the stewardship of nature. The book also considers literary treatments of the area—and arguably makes its own contributions to that literature, as some of the authors search for the North Country through personal essays, while others highlight individuals who are identified with the area, like Sigurd Olson, John Barlow Martin, and Russell Kirk. From the fur trade to tourism, fisheries to supper clubs, Finnish settlers to Native treaty rights, the nature of the North Country emerges here in all its variety and particularity: as clearly distinct from the greater Midwest as it is part of the American heartland.