I like to read historical fiction because it not only entertains but I learn at the same time. This book, The Winds Of Fortune is set in 1882 in a place called Fayette, in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Fayette was, and still is, a real place. Only now it's a ghost town and a Michigan State Park. The town was found in 1864 to turn raw iron ore from the rich Michigan mining fields into pig-iron before it was shipped "down-lake" to a steel mill to be made into steel. The story is woven arou...