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Coming Through With Rye

Coming Through With Rye

Brenda Wheeler Williams, Arnold R. Alanen, and William H. Tishler An historic agricultural landscape study of South Manitou Island at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Michigan. 294 pages, 1996     Purchase     PDF

Isle of View

Isle of View

Charles M. Anderson A history of South Manitou Island and memoir by an early island resident. 111 pages, 1979 From the Leelanau Historical Society Purchase From Amazon Purchase

Port Oneida Walking Tour

Port Oneida Walking Tour

Preserve Historic Sleeping Bear A Hiking and Skiing Guide to the Port Oneida Rural Historic District in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. 35 pages, 2006     Purchase

Why We Preserve

Why We Preserve

The Leelanau Conservancy The Leelanau Conservancy through the lens of Ken Scott. 56 pages, 2015     Purchase

Historic Leelanau Photographs

Historic Leelanau Photographs

Jack Hobey Edward Beebe’s historic postcard photography of Leland, Suttons Bay, and North Manitou Island from 1909 to 1915. 154 pages, 2016     Purchase

Sixties Sandstorm

Sixties Sandstorm

Brian C. Kalt The fight over establishment of a Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, 1961-1970. 151 pages, 2001     Purchase

The Aral Mill Murders

The Aral Mill Murders

Richard Trevae Historical fiction based on documented events from the late 1800s and early 1900s set in the former town of Aral at Otter Creek, in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. 133 pages, 2012     Purchase

The South Manitou Story

The South Manitou Story

Gerald E. Crowner Memoir of the South Manitou Island, as told from a Surfman of the South Manitou Station, 1926-1928. 87 pages, 1982     Purchase  

South Manitou Island

South Manitou Island: From Pioneer Community to National Park

Myron H. Vent A history of settlement on the South Manitou Island. 105 pages, 1973     Purchase

My Point of View

My Point of View

G. C. Furst A memoir of early boyhood on North Manitou Island as part of a lightkeepers family in the early 1900s. 113 pages, 1992 From Preserve Historic Sleeping Bear Purchase Or order by phone: (231) 334-6103 or email: phsbpark@gmail.com From Amazon Purchase