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Paperback Houghton County: 1870-1920 Book

ISBN: 073854051X

ISBN13: 9780738540511

Houghton County: 1870-1920

(Part of the Images of America: Michigan Series)

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"Go West, young man . . ." When Horace Greeley made his famous statement in the pages of Harper's Weekly, he was not referring to the goldfields of the late-1840s California, he was speaking of Michigan's western Upper Peninsula. In the mid- to late 1840s, Michigan's copper resources were rediscovered by state geologist Douglass Houghton, setting off a mining boom rivaled only by the gold rush of 1849. The richest copper and silver ores, and even...

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