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The last stagecoach robbery east of the Mississippi happened near Lake Gogebic in 1889, when Reimund Holzhey, Michigan's Black Bart,…
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Henry Ford built an entire town from scratch in Michigan's U.P., named it after a little girl, and barely used…
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Finnish immigrants in the U.P. often built the sauna before the house and lived in it while they built everything…
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The national Ski Hall of Fame sits in Ishpeming for a reason, this is where the whole sport got organized…
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Half our best stories started as something a reader's grandparent used to say. If your family kept a version of U.P. history that doesn't match the official one, I want to hear it. That disagreement is usually where the real story is.
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