Schooner Passage: Sailing Ships and the Lake Michigan Frontier

by Theodore J. Karamanski

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081432911X
• ISBN13: 9780814329115
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Great Lakes Books Series
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"