Elmwood Endures

Elmwood Endures PDF Author: Michael S. Franck
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814325919
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 222

Book Description
Elmwood Endures provides a visual journey of the cemetery's history and landscape. The guidebook features nearly one hundred photographs, along with brief biographies of notable occupants who make up a virtual who's who in Detroit history. Many of those buried--governors, explorers, doctors, mayors, inventors, senators, civil rights leaders, distillers and brewmasters, and civil war generals--helped found and shape the city.

Graveyard of the Lakes

Graveyard of the Lakes PDF Author: Mark L. Thompson
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814332269
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 428

Book Description
A historically accurate, well-rounded picture of shipwrecks on the Great Lakes.

Wonderful Power

Wonderful Power PDF Author: Susan R. Martin
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814328439
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 300

Book Description
This work examines the archaeological record of copper mining in the Lake Superior area.

Huron

Huron PDF Author: Napier Shelton
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814328347
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 284

Book Description
Napier Shelton takes us on a journey as he spends a year at his family's cottage on the lake. Having visited Lake Huron for over thirty years, Shelton weaves family memories into his evocative and informed account of the seasons on this great lake. In 1995, Shelton spent a year at the cottage more fully exploring Lake Huron and its varied shores. He writes about Native American fishing rights, small towns, the fearsome ice, and the migration of birds. He follows the seasonal changes of life in the water. We accompany him on commercial fishing boats, a research vessel studying lake trout, and a Coast Guard icebreaker. We experience the travels and tragedies of venturers on Lake Huron over the past four centuries. Huron is pleasurable reading for any student of natural history or the Great Lakes region, or for anyone who has ever spent time at a summer cottage or wished to do so.

Windjammers

Windjammers PDF Author: Ivan Walton
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814329979
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 278

Book Description
A collection of stories, lyrics, music and folklore centered on the Great Lakes.

Art in Detroit Public Places

Art in Detroit Public Places PDF Author: Dennis Alan Nawrocki
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814327029
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
This is a guidebook to the many major examples of public art in metropolitan Detroit and a proof that the tradition of art in public places is enjoying a renaissance. It studies 120 sites, organized into five geographical districts. Each area includes a map to facilitate a walking or driving tour. The text provides a brief discussion of the history of each work, the nature of its commission, and its relation to its site.

A Hanging in Detroit

A Hanging in Detroit PDF Author: David Gardner Chardavoyne
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814337392
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259

Book Description
The first historical study—and a riveting account—of the last execution in Michigan. On September 24, 1830, Stephen G. Simmons, a fifty-year-old tavern keeper and farmer, was hanged in Detroit for murdering his wife, Levana Simmons, in a drunken, jealous rage. Michigan executed only two people during the fifty-year period, from 1796 to 1846, when the death penalty was legal within its boundaries. Simmons was the second and last person to be executed under Michigan law. In A Hanging in DetroitDavid G. Chardavoyne vividly evokes not only the crime, trial, and execution of Simmons, but also the setting and players of the drama, social and legal customs of the times, and the controversy that arose because of the affair. Chardavoyne illuminates his account of this important moment in Michigan's history with many little-known facts, creating a study that is at once an engrossing story and the first historical examination of the event that helped bring about the abolition of the death penalty in Michigan. Simmons execution came at a time when Michigan had begun to change from a sparsely populated wilderness to a thriving agricultural center, and Detroit from a small military outpost to a metropolis founded on trade, manufacturing, and an influx of immigrants and other settlers. The hanging was a defining moment during this period of dramatic social change. Thousands of spectators crowded into Detroit expecting to see a thrilling public execution. Many of those spectators, however, left deeply disturbed by the spectacle they had witnessed. Chardavoyne, a lawyer, probes the unsettling incident which sparked a profound shift in attitudes toward capital punishment in Michigan, examining along the way such mysteries as why Simmons was hanged for his crime when other contemporary killers were hardly punished at all. A Hanging in Detroit will fascinate legal historians and lay readers alike with its incisive look into Great Lakes regional history and crime and punishment in Michigan.

Michigan's Early Military Forces

Michigan's Early Military Forces PDF Author: Roger Rosentreter
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814330814
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 534

Book Description
Accompanying histories explain the reasons behind the conflicts and include maps showing all theaters of operations for Michigan troops. The in-depth accounts of the state's role in these hostilities often serve as the first serious and comprehensive studies of the contributions made by its citizens in these events."--BOOK JACKET.

Deep Woods Frontier

Deep Woods Frontier PDF Author: Theodore J. Karamanski
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814320495
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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

Master of Precision

Master of Precision PDF Author: Ottilie M. Leland
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814326657
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324

Book Description
Master of Precision is the fascinating firsthand account of Henry Martyn Leland's life and work during the early days of the automobile industry.