Lost on the Lady Elgin: 150th Anniversary Commemorative Book

by Valerie van Heest

Lightning tore through the slate-black sky above lower Lake Michigan during the early hours of Saturday, September 8, 1860, illuminating the palatial sidewheel steamer Lady Elgin as she lumbered north from Chicago through raging seas and gale winds. The vessel's perilous journey would end abruptly and tragically when the schooner Augusta collided with the steamer, piercing a gaping and fatal wound in the steamer's port side. Within...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0980175097
• ISBN13: 9780980175097
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: In-Depth Editions, LLC
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 10.0" x 9.3"