Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes /

The 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 saili...

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Main Author:	Thompson, Mark L., 1945- (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 2017.
Series:	Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:	Steamboats. Inland water transportation. TRANSPORTATION > Ships & Shipbuilding > History. HISTORY > Maritime History & Piracy. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Regional Studies. Bateaux à vapeur > Grands Lacs (Amerique du Nord) > Histoire. Transports de navigation interieure > Grands Lacs (Amerique du Nord) > Histoire. Steamboats > Great Lakes (North America) > History. Inland water transportation > Great Lakes (North America) > History. Great Lakes. History. Electronic books.
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