Schooner Passage: Sailing Ships and the Lake Michigan Frontier

by Theodore J. Karamanski

Schooner Passage is a history of some of the magnificent sailing vessels and their role in maritime trade along Lake Michigan.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081432911X
• ISBN13: 9780814329115
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"