Iron Fever, Discovery of Iron on Gogebic Range, Autographed Copy

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Iron Fever, How Two Irishmen and a Yankee Started the Gogebic Iron
Range, by Bruce K. Cox.
vi + 109 pages, combbound, 8-1/2 by 11 inches.
The story of the discovery of iron ore atop Colby Hill in Bessemer, Michigan, and the men who were involved in the early development of the mines: trapper, prospector and woodsman Richard Langford, mining captain Nathaniel D. Moore, and the speculator and businessman, John E. Burton.
This book begins with an account of the discovery of iron in Gogebic county, and is followed by biographies of Langford, Moore and Burton and an account of the brief rise and fall of the Bessemer Consolidated Iron Company.
By the mid-1880s an iron boom was on, but in the end, none of these men made money from the Gogebic Range iron mines.
The book concludes with a historiography of the discovery of iron ore on Colby Hill,
the erection of an historical marker by the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1940, and a bibliography.
This book is footnoted, illustrated and indexed.
Published September 2005.