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Schooner Passage - Sailing Ships and the Lake Michigan Frontier (Hardcover) Loot Price: R944
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Schooner Passage - Sailing Ships and the Lake Michigan Frontier (Hardcover): Theodore J. Karamanski

Schooner Passage - Sailing Ships and the Lake Michigan Frontier (Hardcover)

Theodore J. Karamanski

Series: Great Lakes Books Series

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Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, schooner trade was a well-developed system of maritime transport for commodities such as grain, lumber, and iron. The schooner trade was as critical to the development of the Great Lakes region as covered wagons were to the Far West and paddle wheel steamers were to the South. Schooners sailed the Great Lakes in large numbers and played a formative role in the shaping of pioneer life throughout the region. The schooners that traveled the Lake Michigan basin succeeded in bringing a range of shoreline communities and four separate states into one coherent region. Although schooners successfully competed with steam vessels for more than a half-century, wooden sailing ships could not match the scale of the giant steel bulk carriers that began to emerge from shipyards in the twentieth century. The Mary A. Gregory -- one of the last schooners left in 1926 -- was torched, sunk, and buried in Lake Michigan. Schooner Passage is a history of these magnificent sailing vessels and their role in maritime trade along Lake Michigan.

Theodore J. Karamanski shares with the reader the stories of the men and women who sailed on the schooners, their labor issues and strikes, the role of the schooner in the maritime economy along the Lake Michigan basin, and the factors that led to the eventual demise of that economy in the early twentieth century. Karamanski has put together historical accounts from newspaper dippings, historical society archives, and government documents to provide one of the few available histories of schooners.

Schooner Passage will interest scholars and students of Great Lakes and American history as well as the generalreader interested in nineteenth-century western expansion.

General

Imprint: Wayne State University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Great Lakes Books Series
Release date: 2001
First published: February 2000
Authors: Theodore J. Karamanski
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 978-0-8143-2911-5
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
Books > Humanities > History > American history > General
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Maritime history
Books > Professional & Technical > Transport technology > Shipbuilding technology & engineering > General
Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > General
Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Transport industries > Shipping industries > General
Books > History > American history > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Maritime history
Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
Books > History > World history > From 1900 > General
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LSN: 0-8143-2911-X
Barcode: 9780814329115

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