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" Beyond the boundaries : "
Larry Lankton.
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BL
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1045461
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b799831
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Lankton, Larry D.
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Beyond the boundaries : : life and landscape at the Lake Superior copper mines, 1840-1875 /\ Larry Lankton.
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New York :: Oxford University Press,, 1997.
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1 online resource (xvi, 247 pages) :: illustrations
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0195108043
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: 0195355334
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: 1280529040
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: 1429400234
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: 6610529043
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: 9780195108040
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: 9780195355338
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: 9781280529047
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: 9781429400237
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: 9786610529049
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0195108043
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-239) and index.
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| Contents
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ONE: WATER, WOODS, AND WINTER: A Special Sense of Place; TWO: HEAVING UP JONAH: The Travail of Travel; THREE: SETTLING IN: Camps, Communities, Houses, and Hotels; FOUR: A LAPFUL OF APPLES: Foodways in the Far North; FIVE: KEEPING HOUSE: All the Work of the Family; SIX: TASKS AT HAND: Making a Living: Men and Women, Boys and Girls; SEVEN: SAINTS AND SCHOLARS: Village Churches and Schools; EIGHT: THE SINS OF THE BODY: Maladies, Medicines, and Frontier Physicians; NINE: ICE CARNIVALS, CAMELS, AND SUNDAY TROMBONES: Pioneer Pastimes.
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This is a social history of the families of the Keweenaw Peninsula area of Upper Michigan, from 1840 to 1875 when the district's main industry was copper mining. It is the story of these "reluctant pioneers", who survived in what was, in many ways, a hostile environment.
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Copper industry and trade-- Michigan-- Keweenaw Peninsula-- History-- 19th century.
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Copper miners-- Michigan-- Keweenaw Peninsula-- History-- 19th century.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Corporate Business History.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Infrastructure.
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Copper industry and trade.
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Copper miners.
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Michigan, Keweenaw Peninsula.
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338.7/622343/0977499
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HD9539.C7U547 1997eb
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Lankton, Larry D.
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