Fox River (Michigan)

The Fox River is a 36.5-mile-long (58.7 km)[1] tributary of the Manistique River on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the United States.

Fox River
Location
CountryUnited States
Physical characteristics
Source 
  locationMichigan
Mouth 
  location
46°15′36″N 85°52′43″W

In 1919, Ernest Hemingway spent time fishing the Fox after his return from Europe, where he had been hospitalized after injury in World War I. That fishing expedition formed the basis of his early short-story "Big Two-Hearted River."[2]

See also

References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-04-05 at WebCite, accessed December 19, 2011
  2. "Seney". University of Michigan. Retrieved 8 April 2014.


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