Iron Pioneers
Iron Pioneers

Author: Tyler R. Tichelaar

Publisher: Marquette Fiction

Published: 2014-11-20

Total Pages: 701

ISBN-13: 0979179009

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Ten-Year Anniversary Edition When iron ore is discovered in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula in the 1840s, entrepreneur Gerald Henning and his beautiful socialite wife Clara travel from Boston to the little village of Marquette on the shores of Lake Superior. They and their companions, Irish and German immigrants, French Canadians, and fellow New Englanders dream of a great metropolis at the center of the iron ore industry. Despite blizzards and near starvation, devastating fires and financial hardships, these iron pioneers persevere until their wilderness village first becomes integral to the Union cause in the Civil War and then a prosperous modern city.

Iron Men
Iron Men

Author: Richard H. Dillon

Publisher: James d Stevenson Pub

Published: 2004-03-01

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9781885852328

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Historian Richard Dillon, one of the pre-eminent chroniclers of the Far West has made an important contribution to the history of California and the Irish in America in this exhaustively researched and well written triple-biography of the pioneering brothers Donahue-James, Peter and Michael. James and Peter built California's first iron works and San Francisco's first gas plant. Peter built the first heavy locomotive ever manufactured in the West, and was active in building railroads in San Jose area, Sonoma and Marin. Michael moved to Davenport, Iowa. Twice elected Mayor, he built the most modern waterworks of the Midwest.

Transactions
Transactions

Author: Iron and Steel Institute

Publisher:

Published: 1904

Total Pages: 924

ISBN-13:

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Includes sect. "A survey of literature on the manufacture and properties of iron and steel, and kindred subjects" (title varies)

Blood, Iron, and Gold
Blood, Iron, and Gold

Author: Christian Wolmar

Publisher: PublicAffairs

Published: 2010-03-02

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 1586488511

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The opening of the world's first railroad in Britain and America in 1830 marked the dawn of a new age. Within the course of a decade, tracks were being laid as far afield as Australia and Cuba, and by the outbreak of World War I, the United States alone boasted over a quarter of a million miles. With unrelenting determination, architectural innovation, and under gruesome labor conditions, a global railroad network was built that forever changed the way people lived. From Panama to Punjab, from Tasmania to Turin, Christian Wolmar shows how cultures were enriched, and destroyed, by one of the greatest global transport revolutions of our time, and celebrates the visionaries and laborers responsible for its creation.

O Pioneers!
O Pioneers!

Author: Willa Cather

Publisher: Modernista

Published: 2024-07-15

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9181080794

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When the young Swedish-descended Alexandra Bergson inherits her father's farm in Nebraska, she must transform the land from a wind-swept prairie landscape into a thriving enterprise. She dedicates herself completely to the land—at the cost of great sacrifices. O Pioneers! [1913] is Willa Cather's great masterpiece about American pioneers, where the land is as important a character as the people who cultivate it. WILLA CATHER [1873-1947] was an American author. After studying at the University of Nebraska, she worked as a teacher and journalist. Cather's novels often focus on settlers in the USA with a particular emphasis on female pioneers. In 1923, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the novel One of Ours, and in 1943, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

The Best Place
The Best Place

Author: Tyler R. Tichelaar

Publisher: Marquette Fiction

Published: 2013-08-01

Total Pages: 523

ISBN-13: 0979179076

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An irritating best friend gained during a childhood spent in a Catholic orphanage, a father who became a Communist and went to Russia in the 1930s, and 3:00 a.m. visits to The Pancake House. Such is the life of Lyla Hopewell. But in the summer of 2005, when her old boyfriend Bill has a heart attack, her best friend Bel really gets on her nerves, and Finn Fest comes to Marquette, things will change for Lyla. Joined by a cast of Marquette’s most eccentric and endearing characters—the foul-mouthed fourteen-year-old Josie; ninety-three-year-old Eleanor, still trying to fix her little brother’s love life; ex-boyfriend and blunt womanizer, Bill; blind Mary Mitchell and her ornery sister Florence; the sweet but romantically confused cabdriver Sybil; and many, many more—Lyla recounts her life-story as she comes to terms with her past. After years of feeling unloved, neglected, frustrated, and unfulfilled, can Lyla finally find her own best place?