Iron Hunter

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