Larry Lankton: 2 books
Cradle to Grave
Life, Work, and Death at the Lake Superior Copper Mines
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 1993
Concentrating on technology, economics, labor, and social history, Cradle to Grave documents the full life cycle of one of America's great mineral ranges from the 1840s to the 1960s. Lankton examines the workers' world underground, but is equally concerned with the mining communities on the surface....
Hollowed Ground
Copper Mining and Community Building on Lake Superior, 1840s-1990s
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2010
Details a century and a half of copper mining along Upper Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula, from the arrival of the first incorporated mines in the 1840s until the closing of the last mine in the mid-1990s.