Michigan History

My Point of View

My Point of View

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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

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A Garden Apart

A Garden Apart

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Susan Olsen Haswell and Prof. Arnold R. Alanen An agricultural and settlement history of Michigan’s Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Region. 181 pages, 1994     Purchase     PDF

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A Nationalized Lakeshore

A Nationalized Lakeshore

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Theodore J. Karamanski The creation and administration of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore 215 pages, 2000     Purchase     Online  

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The Manitou Passage

The Manitou Passage Story

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Gene Warner An indefinitive history of the settlement of Northeast Lake Michigan 59 pages, 2007     Purchase

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Supper in the Evening

Supper in the Evening

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Al Barnes Pioneer living in Michigan, Civil War, early settlers, cultural life, logging, and recipes. Barnes is a noted Traverse City historian. 259 pages, 1967     Purchase

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