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167 suggestions for further reading The best introduction to the geological formulation of Lake Superior is Jack L. Hough, Geology of the Great Lakes (1958). Two recent studies in the field of anthropology throw a great deal of light on the Paleo-Indian people of the upper Great Lakes prior to the discovery of America: Robert A. Birmingham and Leslie E. Eisenberg, Indian Mounds of Wis­ consin (2000), and Tim Flannery, The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples (2001). There are several good accounts of the Indians who lived along the shores of Lake Superior in historic times: Harold Hickerson, The Chippewa and Their Neighbors: A Study in Ethno-History (1970); Basil Johnston, Ojibway Heritage (1976); Thomas Vennum, Jr., Wild Rice and the Ojibway People (1988); Richard White, The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1660–1815 (1991); and Walker D. Wyman, The Chippewa: A History Over Three Centuries (1993). Although dated, Harold A. Innis, The Fur Trade in Canada: An Intro­ duction to Canadian Economic History (1930), remains the standard overview of the trade in the Lake Superior region. Also dated, but a delight to read, is Grace Lee Nute’s description of a trader’s life, The Voyageur (1931). The adventures of Radisson and Groseilliers are told in Peter C. Newman, Caesars of the Wilderness (1987). The mapping expeditions of the 1820s and 1830s are recounted in Arthur M. Woodford, Charting the Inland Seas: A History of the U.S. Lake Survey (1994 reprint). There are several good accounts of the copper mining era: Larry Lankton, Cradle to Grave: Life, Work, and Death in the Lake Superior Copper Mines (1991); David J. Krause, The Making of a Mining District: Keweenaw Native Copper, 1500–1870 (1992); and Arthur W. Thurner, Strangers and Sojourners: History of Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula (1994). Theodore Karamanski, Deep Woods Frontier: A History of Logging in Northern Michigan (1989), assesses the rather limited timber industry on Lake Superior, and Harlan Hatcher, A Century of Iron and Men (1950), describes the westward movement of iron mining, from Michigan to Minnesota. Margaret Bogue, Fishing the Great Lakes: An Environmental History (2000), is an exhaustive study of that industry. The Soo Canal, which gave these industries access to world markets, is the subject of John N. Dickinson, To Build a Canal: Sault Ste. Marie, 1853–1854, and After (1981). Accounts of ships and shipwrecks on Lake Superior are too numerous to count. One might start with James Barry, Ships of the Great Lakes: 300 Years of Navigation (1973). Also recommended are James R. Marshall, Shipwrecks of Lake Superior (2005), and Frederick Stonehouse, Wreck Ashore: United States Lifesaving Service, Legendary Heroes of the Great Lakes (1994). Several books recount the environmental controversies of the twentieth century: Tom Kuchenberg and Jim Legault, Reflections in a Tarnished Mirror: The Use and Abuse of the Great Lakes (1978); William Ashworth, The Late, Great Lakes: An Environmental History (1986); and Terence Kehoe, Cleaning Up the Great Lakes: From Cooperation to Confrontation (1997). George C. Becker, Fishes of Wisconsin (1983), discusses the sea lamprey crisis. Harold C. Jordahl, The Apostle Islands (1994), traces the political history of Wisconsin’s national lakeshore. The best summary of the history and description of other parks around the lake, in both the U.S. and Canada, is to be found in Hugh E. Bishop, Lake Superior: The Ultimate Guide to the Region (2005). 168 Suggestions for Further Reading ...

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