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Dissecting the Wall of Silver
By Rex A. Crouch
 
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Copyrighted © By Rex A. Crouch 2008
 
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The book “Wall of Silver” published by Avery Color S
tudies, INC alleges that a Wall of Silver exist in the upper peninsula of Michigan. The publisherrightfully adds a disclaimer regarding the factual accuracy of the book Regardless of the publisher
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disclaimers, the author writes the books as if it were a true story leading us to ask, w
here is the “Wall of Silver”?
 Along the Cliff Drive area I have found small pieces of silver like many otherpeople have. The mines in the area have produced some very beautifulsilver samples and there is no doubt in my mind that there is more andprobably large masses of silver (fist sized at best). What I am saying is, I do
believe there is silver in them thar hills but I we shouldn’t believe everything
we read.
Most people who sit down and read the book “Wall of Silver” read it from the
perspective of the author who presented the text as a nonfictiondocumentary. And these people want to believe it as fact 
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to believe in thelost treasure is romantic and captivating.Some people read the book and bum-rush the Cliff Mine area looking for theWall of Silver.I kept hearing people refer to The Wall of Silver book as if were adocumentary so I sat down and read the book with an open mind.I really thought the book was written with the grace of a bull in a china shopand the eloquence of stammer while inebriated. For those of you who bumrushed the Cliff Mine area, let me rephrase that, the book was poorly writtenand difficult to read but it had the qualities to make it a good fiction story. Agood fiction story is one in which there is enough truth to make it believable.This book does have enough truth to suspend disbelief but there werenumerous discrepancies and oddities as well as some things that were just too convenient to be believable. The truths were enough to draw me in but the discrepancies and oddities inspired me to dissect the text 
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wellactually
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what really inspired me to dissect the text were all of the people
who read it, ignored what wasn’t true, and claimed the book to be the gospel
of silver in the Keweenaw area of Michigan. Maybe it is the gospel but let 
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sdo some homework first.
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Jahn N Sandy Headington

I don't think my uncle Bill (William Keranen) was the guy you are looking for.

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