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Subject: HISTORY / Maritime History & Piracy Subject: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies Subject: Steamboats--Great Lakes--History Subject: TRANSPORTATION / Ships & Shipbuilding / History Date: 1991 Date: 2017 Date: 2017 Collection: Wayne Open Book Collection Collection: Wayne Open Book Collection-
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 sailing ship to operate on the upper lakes, signaling the dawn of the Great Lakes shipping industry as we know it today.
Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes is the most thorough and factual …