Copper Country
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Sisu Is the Untranslatable Finnish Word for Grit That the U.P. Built Into Every Yooper
There’s no English word for it. But every U.P. kid was raised…
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Big Louie Moilanen Was Nearly 8 Feet Tall and Still Holds Michigan’s Tallest-Man Record
When Big Louie Moilanen walked into a room in the Copper Country,…
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Before the Gold Rush, There Was a Copper Rush, and It Happened Right Here in the U.P.
Years before the forty-niners headed west, a rush for copper built the…
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One of the Most Famous Lines in Sports Came From a Kid Born in the U.P.
You’ve heard “Win one for the Gipper” your whole life. The Gipper…
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Forget Canada. The World’s First Pro Hockey League Started in a U.P. Mining Town
Houghton calls itself the Birthplace of Professional Hockey, and the history backs…
