Today Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula seems like a peaceful, tree-covered land mass in the middle of Lake Superior, but in the summer, fall and winter of 1913 this place witnessed some of the most turbulent times in Michigan history. On July 23, 1913, growing labor tensions exploded in a district-wide strike that pitted worker against company, neighbor against neighbor and relative against relative. This was the tumult and tragedy of the Copper Country’s greatest upheaval, a 9-month conflict between the Western Federation of Miners (WFM) union and powerful copper companies.