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Tending a Comfortable Wilderness

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

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North Manitou Island: between Sunrise and Sunset

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

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Exploring North Manitou

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

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Views from the Sleeping Bear

Views from the Sleeping Bear

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

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Farming at the Water's Edge

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

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Coming Through With Rye

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

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Isle of View

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

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Port Oneida Walking Tour

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

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Why We Preserve

Why We Preserve

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

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Historic Leelanau Photographs

Historic Leelanau Photographs

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

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