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Remembering Crescent: Logging and Life on North Manitou Island

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Billy and Karen Rosa A family history of A.J White who ran the Crescent sawmill, complete with historic photos. This includes descriptions of lumbering in Michigan in the early 1900s, and life on a remote island. 186 Pages, 2024     Purchase Review of the book: The Rosas have created a wonderful volume rich in detail…

Tending a Comfortable Wilderness

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Eric MacDonald with Arnold R. Alanen A History of Agricultural Landscapes on North Manitou Island, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, MI 429 pages, 2000     Purchase     PDF

North Manitou Island: Between Sunrise and Sunset

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Rita Hadra Rusco Part memoir, part island history, the must-read account of life on the island. 170 pages, 1991 From the Leelanau Historical Society Purchase From Amazon  Purchase

Exploring North Manitou, South Manitou, High and Garden Islands of the Lake Michigan Archipelago

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Robert H. Ruchhoft Histories and trailguides for the hiker and backpacker for these eastern Lake Michigan Islands which are part of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore and the Beaver Island Group 357 pages, 1991     Purchase

Views from the Sleeping Bear

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Thomas Kachadurian Photographs of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. 144 pages, 1998     Purchase

Farming at the Water’s Edge

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Marla J. McEnaney, William H. Tishler, Arnold R. Alanen An assessment of agricultural and cultural landscape resources in the proposed Port Oneida Rural Historic District at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Michigan. 407 pages, 1995     Purchase     PDF

Coming Through With Rye

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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

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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

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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

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