Monte, Mike.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Schiffer Pub. 2002
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 634.98 MONVan Sciver, Noah
Summary: "In a humorous graphic novel set in Minnesota around 1914, we see W. B. Laughead, an advertising manager for a lumber company, spin the Paul Bunyan tall tales. Highlights the impact of clear-cutting old-growth forests. With contributions by Native authors as well as historical maps, photos, and a bibliography."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Toon Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 398.21 VANHannum, James S.
Summary: "This book complements and augments the store of knowledge currently available on the subject of Michigan's abandoned railroads. By design, the work is limited to Michigan's pine belt, in the northern half of the Lower Peninsula. In the late 1800s, logging railroads were densely concentrated in that locale. Restricting the scope of the book to that region results in a volume of manageable size....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 385 HANLutman, George.
Summary: An account of George Lutman's actual experiences of a pioneer lumberman. George Lutman spent practically tow-thirds of his life in the lumber woods of Northern Michigan. He served in all branches of work from chore boy to "Walking Boss". This account was dictated to his daughter.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 0000
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 921 LutmanHannum, James S.
Summary: "Continues the process begun by its predecessor ... After that earlier book was published, it became clear that numerous logging lines existed in the tier of counties immediately south of those appearing in the original publication"--Pt. 2, preface
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hannum House Publications 2019
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 385 HANDeCamp, Alison.
Summary: In 1895, twelve-year-old Stan decides to find his long-lost father in the logging camps of Michigan, documenting in his scrapbook his travels and encounters with troublesome relatives, his mother's suitors, lumberjacks, and more.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC DECCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DECThornton, Neil.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Printer's Devil Press 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 THOCatton, Bruce
Summary: The celebrated writer reminisces about his boyhood in Michigan at the turn of the century.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CATTON, BRUCE CAT1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 977.4632 CAT
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CatCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 CATCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI History CattonCroke, Vicki.
Summary: The story of James Howard "Billy" Williams, whose uncanny rapport with elephants in 1920's Burma transformed him from a carefree young man into the charismatic World War II hero known as Elephant Bill.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.54 CROKaramanski, Theodore J.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1989
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 634.98 KARRitter, Josh
Summary: A sweeping novel about the last days of the lumberjacks is told by of one of the greatest lumberjacks of all who recounts tales rife with murder, mayhem, avalanches, and bootlegging in the tiny timber town of Cordelia, Idaho.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RITCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RITCrowe, William S.
Summary: An authentic account of the lumberjacks, the lumber barons and the millhands as told by William Crowe, lumberjack, a first-hand witness.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: North Country Pub. 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 634.98 CRO1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 634.98 CRO
Davidson, Ash
Summary: A mother and midwife inadvertently threatens the fortunes and livelihoods of her family and their neighbors after noticing an increase in local miscarriages and believes it's caused by the pesticides used by the Sanderson Timber Company, her husband's employer.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAVCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAVCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DAVFrohlicher, John C.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hill House 1984
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 634.982 FROSorden, L. G. (Leland George)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: NorthWord 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 427.0886 SORSummary: "A documentary detailing the renovation of a historic set of Big Wheels and the determination of one man who made it happen"--Disc surface. Retired history buff Bill Steffler volunteered his time and skills to rebuild a rotting set of ten foot logging "Big Wheels" owned by Traverse City, Michigan. He discovered almost all of it was beyond restoration; building new parts from scratch was...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Brauer Productions 2008
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Local Re-InventCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 634 Re-InventingGagnon, John (John G.)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Northern Michigan University Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 634.98 GAGKlumpp, John D.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: J.D. Klumpp 2007
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL RM 385.54 KLUPyle, Robert Michael.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.797 PYLWhelan, Gloria.
Summary: In 1878, eleven-year-old Annabel and her parents survive a year of adventure which includes floating downriver in two shacks along with a group of Michigan lumbermen moving logs.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2002
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Fiction Whelan 2002Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC WHEAdams, Peter.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Publishing Company 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 634.98 ADABacig, Tom.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Voyageur Press 1982
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 634.982 BACCuadros, Alex
Summary: "The unbelievable true story of the Cinta Larga, a tribe first contacted by Westerners in the 1960s, who came to run an illegal diamond mine in the depths of the Amazon. Growing up in a remote corner of the world's largest rainforest, Pio, Maria, and Oitalearned to hunt wild pigs and tapirs, gathering Brazil nuts and açaí berries from centuries-old trees. Then the first highway pierced through,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024