University Of Michigan Regional imprint: 59 books
Michigan Legends
Folktales and Lore from the Great Lakes State
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Over the course of its history, the state of Michigan has produced its share of folktales and lore. Many are familiar with the Ojibwa legend of Sleeping Bear Dunes, and most have heard a yarn or two told of Michigan’s herculean lumberjack, Paul Bunyan.
But what about Detroit’s Nain Rouge,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
The State of Michigan has experienced both tremendous growth and great decline in its history. After many decades of growth up to the 1950s, a wide variety of challenges had to be confronted by citizens and all levels of government in Michigan. The late 20th and early 21st centuries have seen pockets...
Making Waves
Michigan’s Boat-Building Industry, 1865-2000
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
Michigan will always be known as the automobile capital of the world, but the Great Lakes State boasts a similarly rich heritage in the development of boat building in America. By the late nineteenth century, Michigan had emerged as the industry’s hub, drawing together the most talented designers,...
Isadore's Secret
Sin, Murder, and Confession in a Northern Michigan Town
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
"In Isadore's Secret, Mardi Link shines a journalist's lamp on this dark, quiet corner of Michigan's history, assuring that the tragic story of Sister Janina is not forgotten. Link's telling is fascinating and thorough, making a story you will not soon forget."
---Steve Lehto, author of...
The Powers that Punish
Prison and Politics in the Era of the "Big House", 1920-1955
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
In a pathbreaking study of a major state prison, Michigan's Jackson State Penitentiary during the middle years of this century, Charles Bright addresses several aspects of the history and theory of punishment. The study is an institutional history of an American penitentiary, concerned with how a...
Michigan Ferns and Lycophytes
A Guide to Species of the Great Lakes Region
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
Michigan’s ferns and lycophytes are among the state’s most fascinating plants. The species in these groups exhibit incredibly diverse life cycles and an amazing array of morphology. Some species such as the Bracken fern are widespread and aggressive, dominating forest understories throughout much...
The Michigan Eco-Traveler
A Guide to Sustainable Adventures in the Great Lakes State
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Michigan offers some of the most wonderfully diverse recreation opportunities in the country. The Michigan Eco-Traveleris for a new and growing breed of leisure traveler and adventurer—the individual seeking to experience the pleasant peninsulas responsibly by minimizing his or her eco-footprint....
by Donald I. Dickmann, Larry A. Leefers
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
Completely revised and updated, this new edition of The Forests of Michigan takes a comprehensive look at the natural history, ecology, management, economic importance, and use of the rich and varied forests that cover about half of Michigan's 36.3 million acres. The book explores how the forests...
by Susan Jayne Newhof
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
The fifth edition of Michigan’s Town & Country Inns is a guide to more than 50 inns, bed-and-breakfast homes, and historic lodgings in the Upper and Lower Peninsulas of Michigan.
Choose from lighthouses anchored to the rugged shores of Lake Superior, Victorian mansions built by lumber...
Greetings from Cutler County
A Novella and Stories
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2009
Greetings from Cutler County is both a nonstop ride of tragic hilarity, and a piercing look at the complexities of youth.
In one northern Michigan community the lives of desperate small-town dreamers are examined through an ensemble cast as earnest as they are outrageous, and as compelling...
James Jesse Strang
The Rise and Fall of Michigan's Mormon King
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Few lives experience a meteoric rise and fall like that of James Jesse Strang’s. An unsuccessful lawyer from upstate New York, he converted to Mormonism in 1844 and quickly entered the inner circle of the controversial new faith’s founder, Joseph Smith Jr. Upon Smith’s assassination, Strang...
Wicked Takes the Witness Stand
A Tale of Murder and Twisted Deceit in Northern Michigan
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
On a bitterly cold afternoon in December 1986, a Michigan State trooper found the frozen body of Jerry Tobias in the bed of his pickup truck. The 31-year-old oil field worker and small-time drug dealer was curled up on his side on the truck’s bare metal, pressed against the tailgate, clad only in...
by Charles Cleland, Bruce R Greene
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
Faith in Paper is about the reinstitution of Indian treaty rights in the Upper Great Lakes region during the last quarter of the 20th century. The book focuses on the treaties and legal cases that together
have awakened a new day in Native American sovereignty and established the place of Indian...
Secret Witness
The Untold Story of the 1967 Bombing in Marshall, Michigan
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
Every small town has a moment when the real world abruptly intrudes, shattering the town's notions of itself and its people. For citizens of Marshall, Michigan, that moment came August 18, 1967. Nola Puyear was working downtown at the Tasty Cafe that morning when she received a package. She opened...