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Beyond the boundaries : life and landscape at the Lake Superior copper mines, 1840-1875

Title
Beyond the boundaries : life and landscape at the Lake Superior copper mines, 1840-1875 / Larry Lankton.
Author
Lankton, Larry D.
Publication
New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.

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Description
xvi, 247 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
  • Winner of the 1992 Great Lakes History Prize, Cradle to Grave: Life, Work, and Death at the Lake Superior Copper Mines (OUP 1991) related the history of the copper mining industry along Upper Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula.
  • A companion volume to Cradle to Grave, Beyond the Boundaries focuses on the settlement of this region between 1840 and 1875. While Cradle to Grave was concerned with the rise and fall of the industry itself, Beyond the Boundaries examines everyday life on the mining frontier and explores how pioneers transformed a wilderness into a industrial landscape and society.
  • Beyond the Boundaries tells the story of "reluctant pioneers" who attempted to establish a decent measure of comfort, control, and security in what was in many ways a hostile environment. It is essentially a book about men, women, children, and families - not just their workplaces, but their homes, stores, churches, schools, hospitals, and other aspects of community life.
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  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-239) and index.
Contents
1. Water, Woods, and Winter: A Special Sense of Place -- 2. Heaving Up Jonah: The Travail of Travel -- 3. Setting In: Camps, Communities, Houses, and Hotels -- 4. A Lapful of Apples: Foodways in the Far North -- 5. Keeping House: All the Work of the Family -- 6. Tasks at Hand: Making a Living: Men and Women, Boys and Girls -- 7. Saints and Scholars: Village Churches and Schools -- 8. The Sins of the Body: Maladies, Medicines, and Frontier Physicians -- 9. Ice Carnivals, Camels, and Sunday Trombones: Pioneer Pastimes -- 10. Shattered Hopes and Broken Prospects: Lunatics, Larcenists, and Lives of Woe -- 11. Transformations: A Long-Lived Frontier.
ISBN
0195108043
LCCN
96038552
OCLC
  • 35325331
  • ocm35325331
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries