Great Lakes and Michigan History

Peckham: Pontiac and the Indian UprisingPontiac and the Indian Uprising

Howard H. Peckham

First published in 1947, Pontiac and the Indian Uprising is a comprehensive investigation of the life of the Ottawa Indian chief.

Thurner: Strangers and SojournersStrangers and Sojourners: A History of Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula

Arthur W. Thurner

The definitive history of Michigan’s Copper Country, Strangers and Sojourners tells the complete story of the communities which now make up Baraga, Houghton, Keweenaw, and Ontonagon counties.

Kidder: Ojibwa NarrativesOjibwa Narratives: Of Charles and Charlotte Kawbawgam and Jacques LePique, 1893–1895

Recorded with Notes by Homer H. Kidder  •  Edited by Arthur P. Bourgeois

A fascinating collection of fifty-two narratives featuring the tales of three nineteenth-century Ojibwa storytellers.

Hyde: Historic Highway Bridges of MichiganHistoric Highway Bridges of Michigan

Charles K. Hyde

Hyde identifies Michigan’s historically significant highway bridges within the broader contexts of American bridge design and construction in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Krause: The Making of a Mining DistrictThe Making of a Mining District: Keweenaw Native Copper 1500–1870

David J. Krause

A critical examination of the development of copper mining in Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula.

Hobart: Copper Country JournalCopper Country Journal: The Diary of Schoolmaster Henry Hobart, 1863–1864

Edited with an Introductory Essay by Philip P. Mason

Hobart’s narrative provides firsthand accounts of the copper industry in mid-nineteenth century Clifton.