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Author Osborn, Chase S. (Chase Salmon), 1860-1949.

Title The iron hunter / Chase S. Osborn ; with an introduction by Robert M. Warner
Published Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (288 pages)
Series Great Lakes books
Great Lakes books.
Contents Cover; Contents; Introduction; THE IRON HUNTER; Glossary; Contents; 1 Wolves-Human and Otherwise; 2 What's in Your Name or Mine?; 3 Natural Born Rebels; 4 Poverty That Cramps and Then Expands the Soul; 5 Wild Boyhood Dreams Fill My Mind and I Act Upon Them; 6 Swept into the Human Maelstrom of Chicago; 7 I Drive a Coal Wagon-Pile Lumber-Capture a Murderer and Dock Wallop in Milwaukee; 8 Married on Credit I Give My Bride a Five-Cent Bouquet and We Take a Wedding Trip on a Street Car; 9 I Undertake the Study of Iron Ore and Engage in Exploration and Prospecting
10 My First Trip into the Trackless Wilds of Unexplored Canada11 Charmed by the Beauty of Sault de Sainte Marie and Fascinated by Its Environs I Choose It as a Home for Life; 12 I Am Used as a Political Fulcrum by Jay Hubbell to Pry Out Sam Stephenson; 13 The Sacrifice of General Alger to Appease Political Blood Howlers; 14 My Association with Hazen S. Pingree Plunges Me into Politics Deeper than Ever; 15 I Become a Candidate for Governor to Succeed Hazen S. Pingree; 16 The Poetry, Charm, Romance, and Usefulness of Iron Ore; 17 Iron Ore Bacteria
18 Reading the Story of the Stones as Printed on the Pages of the Earth's Surface19 Great Lean Outcropping of Iron Ore Unseen under the Very Eyes of the World; 20 Into the Heart of the Arctic Lapland Where the Mysteries Are Attuned to the Muffled Footfalls of Silence; 21 Deposits of Iron Ore and Beds of Coal under the Shadow of the Pole; 22 A Starvation Hike to Hunt for a Hidden Range of Iron Ore; 23 Fatherly Attitude of John W. Gates and John J. Mitchell; 24 Eating Moose Meat from One Year's End to Another at the Moose Mountain Camp
25 Sir Donald Mann Proposes to Use Double-Bitted Axes as Weapons in a Duel with a Russian Count26 World Workers in Iron in All Ages; 27 Concentration of Lean Ores in the United States-Siderite-Magnetite-Hematite; 28 Accidental Fortunes from Iron Ore; 29 Mesaba Range in Minnesota, the Greatest Iron Ore District the World Has Ever Known; 30 Consideration of Charles Evans Hughes, Woodrow Wilson, and Others in Searching for a Successor to James B. Angell at the University of Michigan; 31 Tom May's Kerry Philosophy a Social Thermometer; 32 I Am Elected Governor of Michigan
33 I Start a Fight against the Saloon That Keeps Up to the End34 Fighting for the Life of Michigan against the Human Bloodsuckers That Subsist on Society Everywhere; 35 My Part in the Presidential Campaign of 1912; 36 Off for Madagascar, Asia, and Africa for a Long Tour in the Unusual Parts of the Earth; 37 Some References to Burma, Ceylon, Cochin-China, Turkestan, Persia; 38 I Discover Another Great Iron Ore Range That Will Someday Help to Supply the World; 39 Many People of Michigan Again Urge Me to Take Up the Gonfalon for Better Things in the State; 40 In Conclusion
Notes Originally published: New York : Macmillan, 1919
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Subject Osborn, Chase S. (Chase Salmon), 1860-1949.
SUBJECT Osborn, Chase S. (Chase Salmon), 1860-
Osborn, Chase S. (Chase Salmon), 1860-1949. fast (OCoLC)fst01899969
Subject Iron mines and mining -- Michigan -- History -- 19th century
Iron mines and mining -- Michigan -- History -- 20th century
Politicians -- United States -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Political.
Iron mines and mining.
Politicians.
Michigan.
United States.
Genre/Form collective biographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
History.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780814335857
0814335853
9780814344163
081434416X
Other Titles Wayne State University Libraries Digital Collections