Description
Spanning the years 1840-1875, Beyond the Boundaries makes a speciality of the settlement of Upper Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula, telling the tale of reluctant pioneers who attempted to ascertain a decent measure of comfort, regulate, and security in what used to be in many ways a hostile environment. Moving beyond the technological history of the period found in his previous book Cradle to the Grave: Life, Work, and Death on the Lake Superior Copper Mines (OUP 1991), Lankton here makes a speciality of the people of this region and how the copper mining affected their day-to-day lives.
A in point of fact first-rate social history, Beyond the Boundaries will appeal to historians of the frontier and of Michigan and the Great Lakes region, in addition to historians of technology, labor, and on a regular basis life.