Mines of the Pewabic Country of Michigan and Wisconsin, 4 Volume Set

Description

These four books are the result of over ten years of research, from the early 1990s to the early 2000s, delving into the history of mines and mineral exploration in the area from the borders of Ontonagon county, Michigan, westward across Gogebic County, Michigan, and into Iron, Ashland and Bayfield counties in northern Wisconsin.
Pewabic is the Ojibwa word for iron, and was the name of the township of Ontonagon county that encompassed what later became, in 1887, Gogebic county. This name was also applied to the iron range of northern Wisconsin by Charles Whittlesey before the 1860s; he wrote a report on the range, and when the compositor was setting the type, he misread the word 'pewabic' and made it into 'penokie'.
The mines and explorations are numbered and arranged in alphabetical order, and the descriptions include trivia on how they got their names, the exact locations, the time period of operation, names of people associated with the work, etc.
Everything is footnoted.
Volume 1, Gold and Silver,
Mines of the Pewabic Country of Michigan and Wisconsin
, covers the gold and silver explorations in this region; xviii plus 75 pages, including index.
Volume 2, Copper, Mines of the Pewabic Country of Michigan and Wisconsin
, covers the copper explorations, with an article on the Copper Culture, the colonial explorations of the French, the mineral claim copper rush of the 1840s, and later explorations and mining attempts; xiv plus 157 pages, including index.
Volume 3, Wisconsin Iron, Mines of the Pewabic Country of Michigan and Wisconsin
, the iron mines and explorations of northern Wisconsin from Iron, Vilas, Ashland, and Bayfield counties; xv plus 183 pages, including index.
Volume 4, Michigan Iron, Mines of the Pewabic Country of Michigan and Wisconsin
, the iron mines and explorations of the Gogebic Range on the Michigan side
(Gogebic County), including a few located in Ontonagon County; xvii plus 253 pages, including index.
Copper and iron are two of the building blocks of civilization, and gold and silver are the historical foundation of a sound monetary system, and this region has great quantities of all of these metals.
These books are all 8-1/2 by 11 inches, perfect-bound, illustrated, indexed, signed by the author.