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Schooner Passage: Sailing Ships And The Lake Michigan Frontier (Great Lakes Books),Used
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Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, schooner trade was a welldeveloped 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 largenumbers and played a formative role in theshaping 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 halfcentury, 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. Gregoryone of the last schooners leftwas torched, sunk, and buried in LakeMichigan in 1926. Schooner Passage is ahistory of these magnificent sailing vesselsand their role in maritime trade along LakeMichigan.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 nineteenthcentury western expansion.
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