Snail-Shell Harbor, Upper Peninsula Michigan fiction first published in 1870, brings back to life a Michigan ghost town full of charm and history. Among young adult Christian fiction books from the nineteenth century, Snail-Shell Harbor has no equal. Written as a piece of evangelical fiction for young boys, the story delivers a clear message of Christ as redeemer, all the while remaining true to its mid-nineteenth-century iron smelting company town setting. Walk the paths the ironworkers walked, fish in the harbor as they knew it, and confront the life and death struggles that challenged their everyday existence.