Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes by Mark L. Thompson

Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes

Great Lakes Books

Mark L. Thompson

232 pages missing pub info (view editions)

nonfiction history sociology informative medium-paced
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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 t...

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