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Schooner Passage: Sailing Ships and the Lake Michigan Frontier

Schooner Passage: Sailing Ships and the Lake Michigan Frontier - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Theodore J. KaramanskiSeries:Great Lakes Books (Hardcover)Publish date:2001-01-01Pages:272
Language:EnglishPublisher:Wayne State University PressISBN-13:9780814329115ISBN-10:081432911XUPC:9780814329115Book Category:History, Transportation, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Ships & Shipbuilding, Regional StudiesBook Topic:State & Local, HistorySize:9.35 x 6.35 x 0.94 inchesWeight:1.2919Product ID:SC76P4KX4S

Schooner Passage is a history of some of the magnificent sailing vessels and their role in maritime trade along Lake Michigan.

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--was torched, sunk, and buried in Lake
Michigan in 1926. 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 clippings, 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 general reader interested in nineteenth-century western expansion.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Wayne State University PressISBN-13:9780814329115ISBN-10:081432911XUPC:9780814329115Book Category:History, Transportation, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Ships & Shipbuilding, Regional StudiesBook Topic:State & Local, HistorySize:9.35 x 6.35 x 0.94 inchesWeight:1.2919Product ID:SC76P4KX4S

Theodore Karamanski is Associate Professor of History at Loyola University of Chicago.


Publisher: Wayne State University Press

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