Ninety Years Crossing Lake Michigan: The History of the Ann Arbor Car Ferries

by Grant Brown Jr.

Book Overview

"A must buy for anyone interested in the Great Lakes."
---Frederick Stonehouse, maritime historian

In 1892, the Ann Arbor Car Ferries shook the transportation world by doing what was then deemed impossible---carrying loaded railroad cars by ship across the sixty-two miles of open water between Frankfort, Michigan and Kewaunee, Wisconsin. With passion, acuity, and remarkable detail, Grant Brown describes the nearly 100-year crossings---from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472050494
• ISBN13: 9780472050499
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: University of Michigan Regional
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"