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 / 46.26000°N 85.87861°W / 46.26000; -85.87861

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]

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  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed December 19, 2011
  2. ^ "Seney". University of Michigan. Retrieved 8 April 2014.