Iron Pioneers

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Iron Pioneers is written by Tyler R. Tichelaar and published by Marquette Fiction. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0979179009 (ISBN 10) and 9780979179006 (ISBN 13).

Ten-Year Anniversary Edition When iron ore is discovered in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula in the 1840s, entrepreneur Gerald Henning and his beautiful socialite wife Clara travel from Boston to the little village of Marquette on the shores of Lake Superior. They and their companions, Irish and German immigrants, French Canadians, and fellow New Englanders dream of a great metropolis at the center of the iron ore industry. Despite blizzards and near starvation, devastating fires and financial hardships, these iron pioneers persevere until their wilderness village first becomes integral to the Union cause in the Civil War and then a prosperous modern city.