Hollowed Ground: Copper Mining and Community Building on Lake Superior, 1840s-1990s
- ISBN-10
- 0814334903
- ISBN-13
- 9780814334904
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 376
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- Wayne State University Press
- Author
- Larry D. Lankton
Description
Details a century and a half of copper mining along Upper Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula, from the arrival of the first incorporated mines in the 1840s until the closing of the last mine in the mid-1990s.
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