Description
Arthur Thurner tells of the enormous struggle of the diverse immigrants who built and sustained energetic towns and communities, creating a lively civilization in what was essentially a forest wilderness. Their story is one of incredible economic success and grim tragedy in which mine workers daily risked their lives. By highlighting the roles women, African Americans, and Native Americans played in the growth of the Keweenaw community, Thurner details a neglected and ignored past.
The history of Keweenaw Peninsula for the past one hundred and fifty years reflects contemporary American culture--a multicultural, pluralistic, democratic welfare state still undergoing evolution.
Strangers and Sojourners, with its integration of social and economic history, for the first time tells the complete story of the people from the Keweenaw Peninsula's Baraga, Houghton, Keweenaw, and Ontonagon counties.
Author: Arthur W. Thurner
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 08/01/1994
Pages: 408
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.06h x 5.98w x 0.94d
ISBN13: 9780814323960
ISBN10: 0814323960
BISAC Categories:
- Travel | General
- Biography & Autobiography | General
- History | United States | State & Local | Midwest(IA,IL,IN,KS,MI,MN,MO
About the Author
Arthur W. Turner is Professor Emeritus at DePaul University, Chicago. He is the author of Calumet Copper and People and Rebels on the Range: The Michigan Copper Miner's Strike of 1913-1914. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.