Name: Islanders round up four cattle seen at Whiskey Point, 1982
Start: 1982-07
End: 1982-07
Location: Beaver Island

Event

Date: 1982-07
Kind: Observation
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: communityenvironmentcommunication
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The July 1982 Beaver Beacon reports four cattle standing in Lake Michigan at Whiskey Point before their owners herded them back home.

Evidence limits

This is a short humorous newspaper observation, not a livestock, shoreline, or property-management record.

Sources

“Whiskey Point Cattle Round Up,” Beaver Beacon, July 1982.
Reports four cattle standing in Lake Michigan at Whiskey Point and their owners using cattle prods to herd them home. It is a brief humorous observation, not a livestock or property record. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, July 1982, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held thirty-five-page mixed archive item is paired with the canonical OCR source; its first fifteen pages contain the July 1982 item and later pages contain a separately dated July 1985 insert.
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Beaver Island Archive, “Islanders round up four cattle seen at Whiskey Point, 1982”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-whiskey-point-cattle-roundup-1982/, accessed [date], citing “Whiskey Point Cattle Round Up,” Beaver Beacon, July 1982. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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