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Book

Sailing the sweetwater seas : wooden boats and ships on the Great Lakes, 1817-1940

Call Number

  • H 623.82 J549 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Brooklin, Maine : WoodenBoat ; Essex, Connecticut : Sheridan House, [2023]

Physical Description

xix, 178 pages : illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm

Summary

"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"--

Contents

  • The Erie Canal and beyond
  • 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
  • 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.

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