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Item Details
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TIME BY MOMENTS STEALS AWAY
THE 1848 JOURNAL OF RUTH DOUGLASS |
| By: |
Ruth Douglass |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£21.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
081432813X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780814328132 |
| Publisher: |
WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
30 November, 1998 |
| Edition: |
annotated ed |
| Series: |
Great Lake Books Series |
| Pages: |
160 |
| Synopsis: |
"Time by Moments Steals Away" records a year in the life of a young woman newly married to one of the most experienced geological explorers in Michigan's early copper mining period and sheds new light on state history.Ruth Edgerton was the niece of Oliver Newberry of Detroit and Walter Newberry of Chicago, two of the most prominent figures in the Great Lakes region. She married Columbus C. Douglass, who had assisted in the first geological survey of Michigan and was active in exploring the Keweenaw Peninsula.Ruth's diary recounts her winter journey from Detroit to Wisconsin and then her life through autumn and into the following winter on Isle Royale, where her husband had been hired to supervise a mining operation. She shares something of the contrast between the city life she had known and the backwoods existence she came to lead with her husband. Hers is one of the few firsthand accounts we now have of life on Isle Royale at the beginning of its role in the newly developing copper trade.Robert Root has transcribed and annotated Mrs. Douglass's journal, which had long been attributed to C. C. Douglass's second wife, Lydia. Root has also drawn on writings by C. C. Douglass and others to provide background information on family history, travel and commerce, copper mining, geographic sites, and the careers of these early explorers and industrialists, and has included period drawings and illustrations.Ruth Douglass's brief journal provides an invaluable look back at Michigan's mining boom and at the people who opened up some of the least settled regions of the state. Robert Root's presentation of that journal clarifies many points for scholars and enriches our understanding ofthe region's history. |
| Illustrations: |
12 illustrations |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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