Beyond the Boundaries

Spanning the years 1840-1875 Beyond the Boundaries focuses on the settlement of Upper Michigan''s Keweenaw Peninsula telling the story of reluctant pioneers who attempted to establish a decent measure of comfort control and security in what was in many ways a hostile environment. Moving beyond the technological history of the period found in his previous book Cradle to the Grave: Life Work and Death at the Lake Superior Copper Mines (OUP 1991) Lankton here focuses on the people of this region and how the copper mining affected their daily lives. A truly first-rate social history Beyond the Boundaries will appeal to historians of the frontier and of Michigan and the Great Lakes region as well as historians of technology labor and everyday life.