Time by Moments Steals Away: The 1848 Journal of Ruth Douglass (Great Lakes Books)

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“Time by Moments Steals Away” records a year within the life of a young woman newly married to one of the experienced geological explorers in Michigan’s early copper mining period and sheds new light on state history. Ruth Douglass’s diary recounts her winter journey from Detroit to Wisconsin after which her life through autumn and into the next winter on Isle Royale, where her husband had been hired to supervise a mining operation. She shares something of the contrast between the city life she had known and the backwoods existence she came to lead with her husband. Hers is without doubt one of the few firsthand accounts we have now of life on Isle Royale at the start of its role within the newly developing copper trade. Ruth Douglass’s brief journal provides an invaluable look back at Michigan’s mining boom and on the individuals who opened up one of the vital least settled regions of the state.

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