Mason Ray

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A Wolverine Lumberjack (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

Life in the northwest wilderness of Michigan during the lumberjack era makes an exciting and engaging story and who better to tell it than someone who actually lived there during this time. Mason Ray was a citizen in Leelanau County, Michigan from 1880 until 1922. She knew stalwart lumberjacks, the people that owned and ran the lumber mills, their neighbors, and the other strong-hearted citizens of the area and she describes them in her novel in vivid details. Her story follows the life of a man named Forrest Mann as he becomes part of the community and includes danger, deceit, intrigue, romance and love. The characters are believable and become like friends as the story unfolds. The local landmarks are real - the town (Agache is Glen Arbor on the shores of Lake Michigan); Muskrat Lake (is Glen Lake); the narrows bridge and the sand dunes. The language and terms are of that period (with a few tweaks).

Technische Details

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• mit Kopierschutz
• Größe: 0.92MB

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

This work of historical fiction was written by Mason Ray, our great-grandmother, who was born in Detroit in 1864. After the death of her parents in 1879, she moved north to live with her grandparents in Leelanau County. She had moved into the northwestern wilderness of Michigan as the lumbering of the great timber was at its height. Mason saw firsthand how life was during this period of development of civilization in the area. She taught at a district school and personally knew lumberjacks and the other people who had moved into the wilderness and wrote this engaging novel about them in the late 1800's or early 1900's. Mason Ray also ran a resort near the narrows bridge with her husband where they raised their sons, was known for her poetry and also wrote the original story titled "The Mystery of the Missing Nun" a true story of a murder that took place in a near-by town and which was printed in Worldwide Magazine. She died in 1922. The original manuscript typed on now yellowing and brittle paper has been handed down through the generations. My sisters and I have decided that this story needed to be shared. Barbara, Candice, Bonnie, Linda (her great-granddaughters)

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Xlibris US
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781503577183
• Artikelnr.: 52576427