Lives & legends of the Christmas tree ships

Author

Fred Neuschel

Call Numbers

• H 386 N495 (CEN)
• 386 N495 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2007.

Physical Description

x, 276 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Contents

• The disappearance of the schooner Rouse Simmons
• Lake Michigan short-haul sailors
• The sailors' school of hard knocks
• Ahnapee, Wisconsin, a maritime community
• The clique takes control
• Sailors in the Battle for the Harbors
• Ahnapee's golden decade
• Captain McDonald, fortune seeker
• Captain Armstrong: working for "the man"
• The end of the maritime community
• The last of the short-haul sailors
• The Schuenemann Brothers
• Herman Schuenemann becomes Captain Santa
• Lies, mistakes, and hoax
• Unseaworthy
• A story to pass on.