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The Beaver Island Historical Society offers several pamphlets, books, newspaper facsimiles of Strang's "Northern Islander", and maps.  We are particularly proud of the series, "The Journal of Beaver Island History".  Started in 1976, the early volumes have been through several reprintings.
[ Volume 1 ] [ Volume 2 ] [ Volume 3 ]  [ Volume 4 ]

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Volume 1

 

Beaver Island Archaeology

1

The Kingdom of St. James and Nineteenth Century American Utopianism

9

The Irish Migration to Beaver Island

27

F. Protar: The Heaven Sent Friend

51

The Rise and Fall of the Fishing Industry

69

Notes on Island Logging

89

The Religions of Beaver Island

103

The House of David Community on High Island

123

Beaver Tales: The Mail Contract

133

It Happened on Beaver Island

147

Names and Places

165

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Volume 2

 

Beaver Island and the Big Boats

1

Pre-Mormon Settlement on Beaver Island, 1837-1852

9

Miniss Kitigan

29

It Happened on Beaver Island

47

Songs of Beaver Island

59

The Island's `Little Brown Church in the Wildwood'

113

Dr. Russell E. Palmer

119

The Central Michigan University Biological Station

127

The Brothers' Place

133

The Building of the Head Lighthouse

143

Protar Revisited

151

Beaver Tales

165

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Volume 3

 

The Ancients of Beaver Island

1

Some Notes on the Ojibwa (Chippewa) of the Beaver Islands

7

Beaver Island and the Indian God

13

Chief Peaine and the Mormons

19

The Quest for the Mormon Press

31

Who Profited from the Expulsion of the Mormons?

37

An Island of Fiddlers

51

The Geological History of Beaver Island

59

Some Points of Geological Interest -- A Suggested Field Excursion

79

The Amphibians and Reptiles of Beaver Island

87

The Real Protar

117

Boat Building and Builders on the Islands 1873-1939

143

History of Holy Cross Parish

161

Times of Their Lives -- Dominican Sisters on Beaver Island

177

The Storm Warning Tower on Church Hill

203

Beaver Island's Historical Society

219

Book Reviews

235

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Volume 4

 

Father Baraga and Beaver Island

1

Beaver Islanders, 1848 to 1856: The Ordinary Among the Extraordinary

11

Protar Comes to Beaver Island

39

Island Israelites

57

Pioneering Collectors of Beaver Island Music and Lore

89

Endangered and Threatened Plants of Beaver Island

107

The Birds of Beaver Island

123

An Explosion in Beaver Island Development
The fate of the Boyd and the Marold

141

The Schools and Schooldays of Beaver Island

179

The Last Days of the Fishing Business

191

Then and Now by Phil Gregg
A photographic record: the Harbor and St. James

 

Other Books at the Historical Society:

vol1 Beaver Island House Party

About Thirty Animals Gladish

All in Favor say Island  Gladish

Aranmore Links

Assassination of a Michigan King

Beaver Island Cemeteries

Beaver Island Cookbook

Book of the Law of the Lord

Brother Benjamin Clare Adkin Jr.

Charlevoix Foster & Scott

Child of the Sea Williams

Exploring High & Garden

Fox Islands  Kathy Firestone

Holy Cross Parish

Island Life, Island Toil

Michigan History Magazine

Michigan Wildflowers

Michilimackinac

Naming Nature  Blocksma

Northern Lights

Shipwrecks & Survivors Ratigan

Stones Dietrich

King Strang  Weeks

Tales From The Other End Hill

The Fourth Coast Blocksma

The Saint of Beaver Island  

The Teachings of a Mormon Prophet

Women Who Kept the Lights

The People of the Great Lakes

A Pictorial History of Michigan Indians

Legends and Stories of the Michigan Indians

People of the Three Fires

Stop in to the Museums on the Island to see all of the interesting materials!
 

 

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