U.P. history
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The Great Lakes’ Most Hunted Shipwreck Has Been Missing Since 1679
In 1679 a French ship loaded with furs sailed east into Lake…
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He Started the U.P.’s Copper Rush. Then He Warned Everyone to Stay Away.
The U.P.’s entire copper boom traces back to one man and one…
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Iron Mountain Almost Buried This Mine in 1993. One Caver Saved a Quarter-Million Bats.
A rumored-bottomless mine shaft in Iron Mountain turned out to hold a…
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Everyone Thinks the U.P. Is Copper and Iron. In 1880 a Druggist Found Gold.
Everyone remembers U.P. copper and iron. Almost nobody remembers the druggist who…
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The Christmas Tree Ship Left the U.P. in 1912 and Never Arrived. Her Trees Are Still Aboard.
The Rouse Simmons, the Christmas Tree Ship, left Thompson near Manistique in…
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He Greeted Marquette’s Founders in 1849. The City Buried Him Like a King in 1902.
Chief Charles Kawbawgam welcomed Marquette’s founders ashore in 1849, presided as the…
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Michigan’s Worst Mine Disaster Took 51 Men in 15 Minutes. One Man Outclimbed It.
The Barnes-Hecker mine near Ishpeming flooded in 15 minutes in 1926, killing…
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An Entire U.P. Town Emptied Out in 1891. The Furnaces Are Still Loaded.
Fayette is the U.P.’s preserved ghost town, an iron company town abandoned…
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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…
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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…
