Jack R Westbrook: 5 books

A sweeping tale of a Holland, Michigan, Dutch schoolteacher and an Upper Peninsula Finnish copper miner during the turbulent times of the 1913 Keweenaw Peninsula copper miner’s strike and their daughter Kiasa, named for a victim of Calumet’s Italian Hall Tragedy. Born of the Michigan copper mines,...

Michigan is commonly recognized as a manufacturing center and for its splendid tourist attractions. Lesser known is Michigan�s role as a leader in the production of oil and gas. Since the discovery of commercial quantities of oil in Saginaw in 1925, Michigan has grown to become the 12th-largest natural...

From a humble 1892 beginning upstairs over a downtown store in the village of Mount Pleasant to the fourth-largest university in the state, Central Michigan University�s growth is tribute to the determination of visionaries who saw the Lower Michigan crossroads town as a potential home to a world-class...

An ancient revered gathering and hunting place for Chippewa Indians becomes the modern home to one of the nation�s largest Native American tribal-owned casino/resort complexes. A rough-and-tumble timbering center sees Michigan�s first lumber millionaire plat a town, dedicating five acres for a county...

Since 1860, Mount Pleasant has been a center for Native American culture, lumbering, agriculture, oil and gas production, collegiate learning, and retail shopping; Mount Pleasant now boasts one of the largest gaming casino resorts in Midwest America.