Author Gary W. Barfknecht jokes that his baby-boom boyhood home in Virginia, Minnesota, wasn’t exactly at the end of the world. But he could see it from there. With energetic style and sly wit, this son and grandson of miners paints a vivid, fascinating portrait of his daily life in the harsh, frigid, isolated strip of mineral wealth known as the Mesabi Iron Range. His entertaining, enlightening, compelling, sometimes poignant true stories and journal-type entries bring to life the unique challenges and pleasures of growing up in what he describes as essentially a small, insular foreign country, with its own culture, language, and one-of-a-kind terrain.

Rooted in Iron and Ice: Innocent Years on the Mesabi

Biographies & Memoirs

Barfknecht, Gary W.

Historical

North Star Press of St. Cloud

Ultimate Michigan Adventures: 98 One-Of-A-Kind Destinations and Diversions

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

Friede Publications

A collection of 98 adventures many people would never think of going to or doing; come see what you might be missing.

Ultimate Michigan Adventures: 98 One-Of-A-Kind Destinations & Diversions

Friede Pubns

Michigan standouts and stand-alones are spotlighted by the master of Michigan trivia. More than 500 fresh, fun peninsula-probing briefs include the Most Exciting Elevator Ride, best Place to Let Sleeping Rattlers Lie. Fasting Ice-Fishing Shanty, Freshest Tap into Michigan-Made Beer, Classiest Way to Cancel Christmas, Boldest Prison Escapes, and more.

The Michigan Book of Bests: An Eclectic Barrage of Great Places to Go & Things to Know

SAME COVER AS STOCK PHOTO SHOWN. MINOR EDGE WEAR AND SCUFFING ON COVERS AND SPINE. CLEAN PAGES. NO MARKING OR WRITING NOTED IN BOOK.

Michillaneous

History

Americas

This book has 70 stories; each just a few pages long, describing murders throughout Michigan History. It starts in 1567, before white men set foot in Michigan, with the murder of a Chippewa brave by a Ottawa brave near the Straits of Mackinac. The final story is a mass murder of a family in Farwell in 1982. 225 pages.

Murder Michigan

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Michillaneous II

Between the covers of Unexplained Michigan Mysteries luck 70 head-shaking, I'll-be-damned true stories even Stephen King couldn't make up. • from the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa . . . to appearances by Bigfoot • from the nightmares worse than those on Elm Street . . . to extraordinary dreams come true • from ghosts that haunt . . . to psychics who help • from UFO sightings . . . to ships that vanished • from murderers who get away . . . to treasures almost foundWhen you're done reading this fascinating collection of eerie, bewildering and strange real-life tales, there's no doubt you'll wonder why Michigan's state motto isn't, "If you seek a mysterious peninsula, look about you."

Unexplained Michigan Mysteries

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Thunder Bay Press Michigan

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