Author: Rolland Harper Maybee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Logging
Languages : en
Pages : 74

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Author: Jeremy W. Kilar
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814320730
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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Michigan's foremost lumbertowns, flourishing urban industrial centers in the late 19th century, faced economic calamity with the depletion of timber supplies by the end of the century. Turning to their own resources and reflecting individual cultural identities, Saginaw, Bay City, and Muskegon developed dissimilar strategies to sustain their urban industrial status. This study is a comprehensive history of these lumbertowns from their inception as frontier settlements to their emergence as reshaped industrial centers. Primarily an examination of the role of the entrepreneur in urban economic development, Michigan Lumbertowns considers the extent to which the entrepreneurial approach was influenced by each city's cultural-ethnic construct and its social history. More than a narrative history, it is a study of violence, business, and social change.

Author: Rolland H. Maybee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lumbering
Languages : en
Pages : 55

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

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

Author: Rolland Harper Maybee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lumbering
Languages : en
Pages : 54

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Author: Matthew R Thick
Publisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 1628953187
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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Michigan’s location among the Great Lakes has positioned it at the crossroads of many worlds. Its first hunters arrived ten thousand years ago, its first farmers arrived about six thousand years after that, and three hundred years ago the French expanded into the territory. This book is a small sample of the words of Michigan’s people—a collection of stories, letters, diary entries, news reports, and other documents—that give personal insights into important aspects of Michigan’s history. Designed to provoke thought and discussion about Michigan’s past, the documents in this reader are expressions of past ideas, markers of change, and windows into the lives of the people who lived during well-known events in Michigan history.

Author: Rolland H. Maybee
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780935719079
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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Author: Jean Lamarre
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814331583
Category : French-Canadians
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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The first major study of the migration of French Canadians to Michigan during the nineteenth century and their substantial impact on the state's development.

Author: Roger L. Rosentreter
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472051903
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 449

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An engaging new history of the Great Lakes State

Author: Carol McGinnis
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806317557
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 518

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This is one of the finest statewide sourcebooks ever published, a remarkable compilation of sources and resources that are available to help researchers find their Michigan ancestors. It identifies records on the state and regional level and then the county level, providing details of vital records, court and land records, military records, newspapers, and census records, as well as the holdings of the various societies and institutions whose resources and facilities support the special needs of the genealogist. County-by-county, it lists the names, addresses, websites, e-mail addresses, and hours of business of libraries, archives, genealogical and historical societies, courthouses, and other record repositories; describes their manuscripts and record collections; highlights their special holdings; and provides details regarding queries, searches, and restrictions on the use of their records.