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035 _a(OCoLC)1055040903
040 _aMdBmJHUP
_cMdBmJHUP
100 1 _aThompson, Mark L.,
_d1945-
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aSteamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes /
_cMark L. Thompson.
264 1 _aDetroit :
_bWayne State University Press,
_c2017.
264 3 _aBaltimore, Md. :
_bProject MUSE,
_c2018
264 4 _c©2017.
300 _a1 online resource:
_billustrations, map
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 0 _aGreat Lakes Books Series
500 _a97 black and white illustrations; 91 black-and-white photos; 5 drawings; 1 map.
500 _aThe publication of this volume in a freely accessible digital format has been made possible by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Mellon Foundation through their Humanities Open Book Program.
506 0 _aOpen Access
_fUnrestricted online access
_2star
520 _aThe Great Lakes shipping industry can trace its lineage to 1679 with the launching on Lake Erie of the Griffon, a sixty-foot galley weighing nearly fifty tons. Built by LaSalle, a French explorer who had been commissioned to search for a passage through North America to China, it was the first sailing ship to operate on the upper lakes, signaling the dawn of the Great Lakes shipping industry as we know it today. Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes is the most thorough and factual study of the Great Lakes shipping industry written this century. Author Mark L. Thompson tells the fascinating story of the world's most efficient bulk transportation system, describing the Great Lakes freighters, the cargoes of the great ships, and the men and women who have served as crew. He documents the dramatic changes that have taken places in the industry and looks at the critical role that Great Lakes shipping plays in the economic well-being of the U.S. and Canada, despite the fact tat the size of the fleet and the amount of cargo carried have declined dramatically in recent years. Spanning more than three centuries, from LaSalle's voyage in 1679, through 1975 with the mysterious sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, to life aboard today's thousand-foot behemoths, this important volume documents the evolution of the industry through its "Golden Age" at the end of the nineteenth century to the present, with a downsized U.S. fleet that numbers fewer than seventy vessels
521 _aGeneral adult.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 7 _aSteamboats.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01132443
650 7 _aInland water transportation.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst00973623
650 7 _aTRANSPORTATION
_xShips & Shipbuilding
_xHistory.
_2bisacsh
650 7 _aHISTORY
_xMaritime History & Piracy.
_2bisacsh
650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE
_xRegional Studies.
_2bisacsh
650 6 _aBateaux à vapeur
_zGrands Lacs (Amerique du Nord)
_xHistoire.
650 6 _aTransports de navigation interieure
_zGrands Lacs (Amerique du Nord)
_xHistoire.
650 0 _aSteamboats
_zGreat Lakes (North America)
_xHistory.
650 0 _aInland water transportation
_zGreat Lakes (North America)
_xHistory.
651 7 _aGreat Lakes.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01240563
655 7 _aHistory.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01411628
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
740 0 _aWayne State University Libraries Digital Collections.
710 2 _aProject Muse.
_edistributor
830 0 _aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/61489/
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