The Iron Hunter Chase S. Osborn ; with an introduction by Robert M. Warner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Osborn, Chase S. (Chase Salmon), 1860-1949.

Series:

Great Lakes books.

Great Lakes books

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Politicians--United States--Biography.

Politicians.

Iron mines and mining--Michigan--History--20th century.

Iron mines and mining.

Iron mines and mining--Michigan--History--19th century.

Osborn, Chase S. (Chase Salmon), b. 1860.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Wayne State University Press 2002

Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A reprint of the autobiography of Michigan’s controversial govern from the Upper Peninsula.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""THE IRON HUNTER""; ""Glossary""; ""Contents""; ""1 Wolves Human and Otherwise""; ""2 What's in Your Name or Mine?""; ""3 Natural Born Rebels""; ""4 Poverty That Cramps and Then Expands the Soul""; ""5 Wild Boyhood Dreams Fill My Mind and I Act Upon Them""; ""6 Swept into the Human Maelstrom of Chicago""; ""7 I Drive a Coal Wagon Pile Lumber Capture a Murderer and Dock Wallop in Milwaukee""; ""8 Married on Credit I Give My Bride a Five-Cent Bouquet and We Take a Wedding Trip on a Street Car""

""9 I Undertake the Study of Iron Ore and Engage in Exploration and Prospecting""""10 My First Trip into the Trackless Wilds of Unexplored Canada""; ""11 Charmed by the Beauty of Sault de Sainte Marie and Fascinated by Its Environs I Choose It as a Home for Life""; ""12 I Am Used as a Political Fulcrum by Jay Hubbell to Pry Out Sam Stephenson""; ""13 The Sacrifice of General Alger to Appease Political Blood Howlers""; ""14 My Association with Hazen S. Pingree Plunges Me into Politics Deeper than Ever""; ""15 I Become a Candidate for Governor to Succeed Hazen S. Pingree""

""16 The Poetry, Charm, Romance, and Usefulness of Iron Ore""""17 Iron Ore Bacteria""; ""18 Reading the Story of the Stones as Printed on the Pages of the Earth's Surface""; ""19 Great Lean Outcropping of Iron Ore Unseen under the Very Eyes of the World""; ""20 Into the Heart of the Arctic Lapland Where the Mysteries Are Attuned to the Muffled Footfalls of Silence""; ""21 Deposits of Iron Ore and Beds of Coal under the Shadow of the Pole""; ""22 A Starvation Hike to Hunt for a Hidden Range of Iron Ore""; ""23 Fatherly Attitude of John W. Gates and John J. Mitchell""

""24 Eating Moose Meat from One Year's End to Another at the Moose Mountain Camp""""25 Sir Donald Mann Proposes to Use Double-Bitted Axes as Weapons in a Duel with a Russian Count""; ""26 World Workers in Iron in All Ages""; ""27 Concentration of Lean Ores in the United States Siderite Magnetite Hematite""; ""28 Accidental Fortunes from Iron Ore""; ""29 Mesaba Range in Minnesota, the Greatest Iron Ore District the World Has Ever Known""

""30 Consideration of Charles Evans Hughes, Woodrow Wilson, and Others in Searching for a Successor to James B. Angell at the University of Michigan""""31 Tom May's Kerry Philosophy a Social Thermometer""; ""32 I Am Elected Governor of Michigan""; ""33 I Start a Fight against the Saloon That Keeps Up to the End""; ""34 Fighting for the Life of Michigan against the Human Bloodsuckers That Subsist on Society Everywhere""; ""35 My Part in the Presidential Campaign of 1912""; ""36 Off for Madagascar, Asia, and Africa for a Long Tour in the Unusual Parts of the Earth""

""37 Some References to Burma, Ceylon, Cochin-China, Turkestan, Persia""

Notes:

Originally published: New York : Macmillan, 1919.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780814335857

0814335853

OCLC:

755624534