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Laughing Whitefish / Robert Traver ; foreword by Matthew L.M. Fletcher.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Traver, Robert, 1903-1991.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Iron mines and mining--Fiction.
- Iron mines and mining.
- Ojibwa Indians--Legal status, laws, etc--Fiction.
- Ojibwa Indians.
- Trials (Breach of promise)--Fiction.
- Trials (Breach of promise).
- Michigan--Ethnic relations--Fiction.
- Michigan.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (245 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Laughing Whitefish is an engrossing trail drama of ethnic hostility and the legal defense of Indian treaties. Young Lawyer William (Willy) Poe puts out a shingle in Marquette, Michigan, in 1873, hoping to meet a woman who will take him seriously. His first client, the alluring Charlotte Kawbawgam, known as Laughing Whitefish, offers an enticing challenge-a compelling case of injustice at the hands of powerful mining interests. Years earlier, Charlotte''s father led the Jackson Mining Company to a lucrative iron ore strike, and he was then granted a small share in the mine, which the new owner
- Contents:
- Foreword; Part One; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12; 13; 14; Part Two; 15; 16; 17; 18; 19; 20; 21; 22; 23; 24; 25; 26; 27; 28; 29; 30; 31; 32; Author's Afterword
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-62895-089-7
- 1-60917-219-1
- OCLC:
- 774285369
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