The Last Stagecoach Robbery East of the Mississippi Happened in the U.P.
The last stagecoach robbery east of the Mississippi happened near Lake Gogebic in 1889, when Reimund Holzhey, Michigan's Black Bart, killed a...
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Escanaba Had an Actual Pirate. The Feds Chased Him Down With a Gunboat in 1908.
Roaring Dan Seavey, widely called the only man ever arrested for piracy on the Great Lakes, ran his schooner out of Escanaba....
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The Feds Seized the U.P.’s Sacred Copper Boulder in 1843. It’s Still in a Smithsonian Storeroom.
The Ontonagon Boulder, a 3,708-pound sacred copper mass that launched the U.P.'s copper boom, was seized in 1843 and hasn't been displayed...
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There’s a Ghost Forest in the U.P. Where the Trees Never Grew Back
The Kingston Plains near Grand Marais is a U.P. ghost forest: a haunting plain of century-old stumps where logging and fire left...
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The Most Yooper Hat on Earth Was Actually Invented in Wisconsin
The Stormy Kromer is the most Yooper hat there is, but it was born in Wisconsin in 1903. How the iconic cap...
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Why Michigan Has the Upper Peninsula: A Lost War, a Consolation Prize, and a Copper Fortune
Michigan didn't choose the U.P. It got stuck with it. Then it got rich. If you've ever wondered why Michigan has the...
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The Only Time in Michigan History a Prison Warden Was Killed Happened in the U.P.
Inside the movie theatre of the Marquette Branch Prison, a December night in 1921 turned into the darkest chapter in the prison's...
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Forget Aspen. Organized Skiing in America Started in a Tiny U.P. Mining Town
The national Ski Hall of Fame sits in Ishpeming for a reason, this is where the whole sport got organized When you...
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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 Keweenaw, and the Quincy Mine still towers over it Everybody...
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He Snowshoed 700 Miles a Winter Across the U.P. Now a Giant Statue Honors Him
If you have ever driven Highway 41 between Baraga and L'Anse, you have probably seen him: a 35-foot figure standing on a...
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This Marquette Prison Is Famous for Its Flower Gardens. It’s Also Where Inmates Murdered the Warden.
It happened during a Sunday matinee in 1921 — the only time in Michigan history that inmates have ever killed a prison...
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There’s a Lighthouse So Far Out in Lake Superior, Keepers Called It the Loneliest Place in North America
Stannard Rock sits 24 miles from the nearest land, took five brutal years to build, and nearly killed the men who kept...
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There’s a Chemical Element Named After a Yooper From Ishpeming, and Most People Have No Idea
Glenn Seaborg grew up to win the Nobel Prize, help discover plutonium, and earn an honor almost no scientist ever gets There...
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