U.P. history
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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…
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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…
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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…
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How Keweenaw Copper Built the U.P.—and Wired a Growing America
Before the California Gold Rush became legend, another American mineral rush was…
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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…
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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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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…
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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,…
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The 1913 Italian Hall Disaster Is the Copper Country’s Darkest Day, and Calumet Still Remembers
On Christmas Eve more than a century ago, a false cry of…
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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…
