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Monte, Mike.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Schiffer Pub. 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 634.98 MON

Van 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

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 398.21 VAN

Hannum, 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 385 HAN

Lutman, 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 921 Lutman

Hannum, 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 385 HAN

DeCamp, 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

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC DEC

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DEC

Thornton, Neil.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Printer's Devil Press 1989

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 THO

Catton, 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CATTON, BRUCE CAT
1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 977.4632 CAT

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 Cat

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 CAT

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI History Catton

Croke, 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.54 CRO

Karamanski, Theodore J.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1989

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 634.98 KAR

Ritter, Josh

1 hold on 2 copies

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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIT

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIT

Crowe, 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 634.98 CRO
1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 634.98 CRO

Davidson, Ash

1 hold on 4 copies

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

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAV

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAV

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DAV

Frohlicher, John C.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hill House 1984

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 634.982 FRO

Sorden, L. G. (Leland George)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: NorthWord 1986

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 427.0886 SOR

Summary: Tells the 75 year history of Michigan's logging and lumbering.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Program Source International 1999

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Hist DVD Michigan

Summary: "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

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Local Re-Invent

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 634 Re-Inventing

Gagnon, John (John G.)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Northern Michigan University Press 1996

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 634.98 GAG

Klumpp, John D.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: J.D. Klumpp 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL RM 385.54 KLU

Pyle, Robert Michael.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1988

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.797 PYL

Whelan, 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

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Fiction Whelan 2002

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC WHE

Adams, Peter.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Publishing Company 1989

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 634.98 ADA

Bacig, Tom.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Voyageur Press 1982

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 634.982 BAC

Cuadros, 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

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