Iron Hunter

By Chase Salmon Osborn · Running time 09:36:14 · Memoirs, Modern (20th C)

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This is an autobiography by Michigan Governor Chase Osborn. Osborn was born in 1860 in a log house in Huntington County, Indiana and later attended Purdue University, without graduating. He briefly worked at the Chicago Tribune and a newspaper in Milwaukee before marrying in 1881. He and his bride moved to Florence, on the northern border of Wisconsin, to run a local newspaper and prospect for iron. In Florence he used his newspaper to organize opposition to the criminals who controlled the town, at great risk to his life. Later in the 1880s he moved to Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, and again ra

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