Sailing the sweetwater seas : wooden boats and ships on the Great Lakes, 1817-1940 / George D. Jepson.
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- 9781493072279
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- Wooden boats and ships on the Great Lakes, 1817-1940
- Ships, Wooden -- Great Lakes (North America) -- History
- Wooden boats -- Great Lakes (North America) -- History
- Merchant ships -- Great Lakes (North America) -- History
- Seafaring life -- Great Lakes (North America) -- History
- Sailors -- Great Lakes (North America) -- Biography
- Inland navigation -- Great Lakes (North America) -- History
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The Great Lakes were America's first superhighway before railroad lines and roads arrived in the late nineteenth century. This book tells the story of the 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. The "five sisters," as the Great Lakes came to be called, would connect America's far-reaching regions in the century ahead, carrying streams of Irish, German, and Scandinavian settlers to new lives, as the young nation expanded west. Initially, schooner fleets delivered passengers and goods to settlements along the lakes, including Chicago, Milwaukee, and Green Bay, and returned east with grain, lumber, and iron ore. Steam-driven vessels, including the lavish "palace" passenger steamers, followed, along with those specially designed to carry coal, grain, and iron ore. The era also produced a flourishing shipbuilding industry and saw recreational boating advance. 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.
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.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.