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Don Roy's South Manitou Island Bibliography

Anderson, Charles M. Isle of View: A History of South Manitou Island. Frankfort: J. B. Publications, 1979. 111 p. Print.

Bald, F. Clever. Michigan in Four Centuries. New York: Harper, 1954. 498p. Print.

Barnes, Al, Virginia Pie and Other Tales of the Grand Traverse Region. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1959. 184p. Print.

Beagle Publishing Inc. Visitors’ Guide to South Manitou Island. Mason: Maritime Press, 1989. 24p. Print.

Boyer, Dwight. Ghost Ships of the Great Lakes. New York: Dodd, Need & Co., 1968. 294p. Print.

Burt, William H. Mammals of the Greet Lakes Region. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1957. 246p. Print.

Cox, Joseph F. Crop Production and Soil Management. New York: Wiley, 1925. 516p. Print.

Crowner, Gerald E. The South Manitou Story. Mio: Future Printing, 1982. 89p. Print.

Davis Marion M. "A Romantic Chain of Islands", Michigan History Magazine, 11: 342-380 (1927).

Dennis, Jerry, The Living Great Lakes; Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas. New York, Thomas Dunne Books, 2003. 296p.

Dickinson, Julia T., The Story of Leelenau. Omena: Solle’s Bookshop, 1951. 59p. Print.

Frederickson Arthur C. and Lucy F. Pictorial History of the C & 0 Train and Auto Ferries and the Pere Marquette Line Steamer. Grand Rapids: Lakeside Printing, 1955. 70p. Print.

Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes in 1843. 1843. Chicago: Univ of Illinois Press, 1991. 192p. Print. Great Lakes.

Furst, Glenn C. My Point of View. Ludington: Privately Printed, 1992. 113p. Print.

Gordon, Charles, A Guide to the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Frankfort, Gateway Publishing, 1975. 31p.

Grand Traverse Historical Society. The Traverse Region: Historical and Descriptive, with Illustrations of Scenery and Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Some of its Prominent Men and Pioneers. 1884. Chicago: H. R. Page, 1974. 369p. Print.

Grand Traverse Lighthouse Museum. Grand Traverse Lighthouse Chicago: Arcadia, 2008. 127p. Print.

Gutsche, Andrea. Mysterious Islands: Forgotten Tales of the Great Lakes Toronto: Lynx, 1991. 294p. Print.

Harley. Rachel B. and Betty MacDowell, Michigan Women - Firsts and Founders. Lansing: Michigan Women’s Studies Association, 1992. 110p. Print.

Harrison, Tim. Lost Lighthouses. Guilford: Globe, 1999. 169p. Print.

Haswell, Susan O. A Garden Apart: History of Michigan's Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Omaha: National Park Service, 1994. 181p. Print.

Hatcher, Harlan. The Great Lakes. London-New York: Oxford University Press, 1944. 384p. Print.

Hatt, Robert T. Island Life: A Study of The Land Vertebrates of The Islands of Eastern Lake Michigan. Bloomfield Hills: Cranbrook Press, 1948. 178p. Print.

Hawkins, Nehemiah, The Mormon of the Little Manitou Island(s). New York, Uplift Co., 1916. 526p.

Hazlett, Brian T. "The Flora of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Benzie and Leelenau Counties, Michigan". The Michigan Botanist 30(4): 193-202 (October 1991).

Hazlett, Brian T. and Robert J. Vande Kopple, The Terrestrial Vegetation and Flora of North and South Manitou Islands, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Leelanau County, Michigan. Douglas Lake: University of Michigan Biological Station, 1986. 125p. Print.

Hyde, Charles K. The Northern Lights: Lighthouses of the Upper Great Lakes. 1986. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1995. 208p. Print.

Knudsen, Arthur and Evelyn A. Gleam Across the Wave: The Biography Of Martin Nicolai Knudsen, Lighthouse Keeper On Lake Michigan. 1948. Ellison Bay: Cross+Roads Press, 2009. 64p. Print.

Lawier, William F. "Michigan Islands". 1938. Michigan History Magazine 22: 281-318.

Leach, M. L. A History of the Grand Traverse Region. 1883. Whitefish: Kessinger Publishing, 2009. 168p. Print.

Littell, Edmund M. 100 Years in Leelanau. Leland: The Print Shop, 1965. 88p. Print.

Lord, Russell. "My Visit With The Island Farmers Who Grow The Best Rosen Rye In The Country", Farm and Fireside 40: 10-11 (December 1925).

Michigan Department of Natural Resources. State of the Great Lakes: 1990 Annual Report. Lansing: Office of the Great Lakes, 1991. 47p. Print.

Penrose, Laurie. A Traveler's Guide to Western Great Lakes Lighthouses. Davison: Friede, 1995. 163p. Print.

Penrose, Laurie. Traveler's Guide to 116 Michigan Lighthouses. Davison: Friede, 1992. 122p. Print.

Peterson, William D., United States Life-Saving Service in Michigan, Chicago: Arcadia, 2000. 128p. Print.

Phipps, Terry, Seasons of Sleeping Bear. Ann Arbor, Univ. of Michigan, 2004. 123p.

Quaife, Milo. Lake Michigan. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1944, 384p. Print.

Roberts, Bruce. Western Great Lakes Lighthouses - Michigan and Superior, Guillford: Globe, 1995. 87p. Print.

Rogers, Joseph H. South Manitou Island: A Field Trip Sourcebook And Guide. 1966. Traverse City: Northwestern Michigan College, 1993. 34p. Print.

Ruchhoft, Robert H. Exploring North Manitou, South Manitou, High and Garden Islands of the Lake Michigan Archipelago. Cincinnati: Pucelle Press, 1991. 362p. Print.

Scharf, William C. Birds And Land Vertebrates Of South Manitou Island. Traverse City: Northwestern Michigan College, 1973. 23p. Print.

Scharf, William C. Sleeping Bear Dunes: Manitou Island Animal Life. Traverse City: Northwestern Michigan College, 1973. 23p. Print.

Sheridan, Stephen E., Remembering: A History of the Sheridan Family. Grand Rapids, Color House Graphics, 2009. 332p.

Smucker, Anna E. To Keep the South Manitou Lighthouse. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2004. 129p. Print.

Stebbins, Catherine L. Here I Shall Finish My Voyage. Omena: Solle’s Press, 1960. 28 p. Print.

Stocking, Kathleen. Letters From the Leelanau: Essays Of People And Place. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998. 182p. Print.

Stockwell, Jack E. and Gannon, John E., Observations On The Winter Ecology of Red Fox (Vulpes fulva) On South Manitou Island, Michigan Pellston: The University of Michigan Biological Station, 1977. 30p. Print.

Thompson, Paul W. "Michigan, The Big Tree State" Michigan Conservation, 23: 12–16 (1964).

Thompson, Paul W. "Vegetation and Common Plants of Sleeping Bear", Cranbrook Institute of Science Bulletin 22, 49 p (1967). Print.

U.S. Congress, Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, Subcommittee on Public Lands. Sleeping Bear Dunes National Recreation Area. Hearing, Eighty-seventh Congress, first session, on S. 2153. Traverse City, Mich. November 13, 1961.. Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1962. 212p. Print.

U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Wilderness Study - Sleeping Beer Dunes National Lakeshore Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1974. 26p. Print.

U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Draft Environmental Impact Statement: Wilderness Proposal, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Michigan. Omaha: National Park Service, 1974. 36p. Print.

Vent, Myron. South Manitou Island: From Pioneer Community to National Park. 1973. New York: Center for Cultural Resources, 1988. 105p. Print.

Vent, William E., and Myron H. Pioneer Tales and Other Stories of South Manitou Island. Aurora: J.W. Reproductions, 1998. 92p. Print.

Wakefield, Larry. Leelanaeu County Postcard History. Chelsea: Book Crafters Inc., 1992. Print.

Wargin, Ed. Legends of Light: A Michigan Lighthouse Portfolio. Ann Arbor: Media Group, 2005. 224p. Print.

Warner, Gene, The Manitou Passage Story: An Indefinitive History Of The Settlement Of Northeast Lake Michigan. Grand Haven: BoysMind Books, 2004. 53 p. Print.

Weeks, George, Sleeping Bear: Its Lore, Legends and First People. Glen Arbor: Cottage Book Shop, 1988. 68p. Print.

Weeks, George, Sleeping Bear: Yesterday and Today, Including Ghost Towns, Lighthouses, and Shipwrecks of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Franklin: Altwerger and Mandel, 1990. 173p. Print.

Wilk, Gerard,  Americans from Germany. New York: German Information Center, 1976. 81p. Print.

Williams, Brenda W., Coming Through with Rye: An Historic Agricultural Landscape Study of South Manitou Island at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Michigan. Omaha: National Park Serivce, 1996. 294p. Print.

Winters, Donna, Charlotte of South Manitou Island. Caledonia: Bigwater Publishing, 1992. 246p. Print.

Wright, Larry, Great Lakes Lighthouses Encyclopedia. Boston: Mills Press, 2006. 448p. Print.

Submitted by Don Roy, 01/20/2005; Updated 01/26/2010

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