Digging Up Whiskey Row: An Archaeological and Historical Investigation of Industrial Capitalism on the North Shore of Lake Superior

Following years of speculation about the potential economic value of mineral deposits in northeastern Minnesota, the first full-scale attempts to exploit that potential began in 1882. That year, the Minnesota Iron Company (MIC) imported dozens of miners to start extracting iron ore from the Soudan...

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Main Author: Tumberg, Timothy Andrew
Other Authors: Reid, J. Jefferson
Language:en
Published: The University of Arizona. 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/247273