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.
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