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Coverage: Great Lakes Subject: HISTORY / Maritime History & Piracy Subject: HISTORY / Maritime History & Piracy Subject: Inland water transportation--Great Lakes--History Subject: Inland water transportation--History Subject: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies Subject: Steamboats--History Collection: Wayne State University eBooks-
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 …