TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jepson,George D.
TI  - Sailing the sweetwater seas: wooden boats and ships on the Great Lakes, 1817-1940 
SN  - 9781493072279
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Essex, Connecticut
PB  - Sheridan House
KW  - Ships, Wooden
KW  - Great Lakes (North America)
KW  - History
KW  - Wooden boats
KW  - Merchant ships
KW  - Seafaring life
KW  - Sailors
KW  - Biography
KW  - Inland navigation
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Prologue: The Erie Canal and beyond -- Part 1. Working vessels evolve -- Schooners : the heartland sails into the industrial age -- Passenger steamers : the way west -- Steam barges : building a young nation -- Bulk freighters : America's long ships -- Part 2. Recreation, a rogue, and a legendary Great Lakes historian -- Cruise of the Abbie : an 1889 Lake Superior adventure -- Truscott Boat Manufacturing Company : a shining star of American industry -- "Roaring Dan" Seavey : Great Lakes rogue -- Henry Barkhausen : a Great Lakes mariner remembers
N2  - "The story of the Great Lakes ships and boats on which the United States, barely decades old, moved to the country's middle and beyond, established a robust industrial base, and became a world power, despite enduring a bloody Civil War. In text and photographs, this book tells the story of a bygone era, of mariners and Mackinaw boats, schooners and steamboats, all helping to advance the young nation westward"--
ER  -