Schooner Passage: Sailing Ships and the Lake Michigan Frontier (Great Lakes Books Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.90 (905 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 081432911X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the Author Theodore Karamanski is Associate Professor of History at Loyola University of Chicago.
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. 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. Schooner Passage is ahistory of these magnificent sailing vesselsand their role in maritime trade along LakeMichigan.Theodore J. The schooners that traveled the Lake Michigan basin succeeded in bringing a range of shoreline communities and four separate states into one coherent region. Gregory-one of the last schooners left-was torched, sunk, and buried in LakeMichigan in 1926. 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. 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. Karamanski has put together historical accounts fr
. Theodore Karamanski is Associate Professor of History at Loyola University of Chicago
Amazon Customer said Schooner Passage. Schooner Passage presents an intriguing look back into the cultural, sociological and economic contexts in which the Lake Michigan schooner trade existed. The history of lake schooners and their role in the development of commerce on Lake Michigan has received relatively little attention, making this book an important