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MarquetteCopper Harbor

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Narrated by The Drifter 235 km · about 163 min · 33 stories

Up the Keweenaw along Lake Superior: the iron discovery at Jackson Mine, the Barnes-Hecker disaster, Finnish immigrants and their saunas, the Calumet and Hecla copper empire, the 1913 strike that broke it, and the keepers of Eagle Harbor light.

The stories

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  1. 1
    Marquette, Michigan

    The Marquette Harbor Light

  2. 2
    Marquette, Michigan

    The Discovery at Jackson Mine

  3. 3
    Negaunee, Michigan

    The Negaunee State Bank Failure

  4. 4
    Ishpeming, Michigan

    The Mather Inn's Legacy

  5. 5
    Ishpeming, Michigan

    The Barnes-Hecker Mine Disaster

  6. 6
    Champion, Michigan

    The Underground Miner's Reality

  7. 7
    Champion, Michigan

    The Negaunee Iron Formation

  8. 8
    Champion, Michigan

    The Sam Cohodas Lodge

  9. 9
    Champion, Michigan

    Finnish Immigrants in the Iron Range

  10. 10
    Michigamme, Michigan

    The Wilderness of Craig Lake

  11. 11
    Michigamme, Michigan

    The Life of the Lumberjack

  12. 12
    L'Anse, Michigan

    The Founding of Herman

  13. 13
    Covington, Michigan

    The Copper Country Strike Deep Dive · Part 1 of 3

  14. 14
    Covington, Michigan

    The Copper Country Strike Deep Dive · Part 2 of 3

  15. 15
    L'Anse, Michigan

    The Copper Country Strike Deep Dive · Part 3 of 3

  16. 16
    L'Anse, Michigan

    The Keweenaw Bay Indian Community

  17. 17
    Baraga, Michigan

    Bishop Baraga's Mission

  18. 18
    Baraga, Michigan

    The Hanka Homestead Finnish Museum

  19. 19
    Pelkie, Michigan

    The Portage Entry Lighthouse

  20. 20
    Chassell, Michigan

    Chassell's Strawberry Tradition

  21. 21
    Chassell, Michigan

    The Remarkable Bald Eagle

  22. 22
    Chassell, Michigan

    Douglass Houghton's Geological Survey

  23. 23
    Houghton, Michigan

    The Portage Lake Lift Bridge

  24. 24
    Hancock, Michigan

    The Calumet and Hecla Empire Deep Dive · Part 1 of 3

  25. 25
    Calumet, Michigan

    The Calumet and Hecla Empire Deep Dive · Part 2 of 3

  26. 26
    Calumet, Michigan

    The Calumet and Hecla Empire Deep Dive · Part 3 of 3

  27. 27
    Ahmeek, Michigan

    Cornish Miners in the Keweenaw

  28. 28
    Mohawk, Michigan

    The Wreck of the Moreland

  29. 29
    Eagle River, Michigan

    The Rise and Fall of Central

  30. 30
    Mohawk, Michigan

    Engineering the Keweenaw Waterway

  31. 31
    Mohawk, Michigan

    The Keepers of Eagle Harbor

  32. 32
    Mohawk, Michigan

    Building Brockway Mountain Drive

  33. 33
    Copper Harbor, Michigan

    The Keweenaw Peninsula's Geological Origins

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Where the stories come from

Infinite Road draws from a library of primary sources — public-domain county histories, the WPA American Guide Series, National Register of Historic Places records, local records, and encyclopedic sources — then writes and narrates each story in its own words.