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Graveyard of the Lakes

Author : Mark L. Thompson
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004-04-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0814332269

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A historically accurate, well-rounded picture of shipwrecks on the Great Lakes.

November's Fury

Author : Michael Schumacher
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781452940458

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On Thursday, November 6, the Detroit News forecasted “moderate to brisk” winds for the Great Lakes. On Friday, the Port Huron Times-Herald predicted a “moderately severe” storm. Hourly the warnings became more and more dire. Weather forecasting was in its infancy, however, and radio communication was not much better; by the time it became clear that a freshwater hurricane of epic proportions was developing, the storm was well on its way to becoming the deadliest in Great Lakes maritime history. The ultimate story of man versus nature, November’s Fury recounts the dramatic events that unfolded over those four days in 1913, as captains eager—or at times forced—to finish the season tried to outrun the massive storm that sank, stranded, or demolished dozens of boats and claimed the lives of more than 250 sailors. This is an account of incredible seamanship under impossible conditions, of inexplicable blunders, heroic rescue efforts, and the sad aftermath of recovering bodies washed ashore and paying tribute to those lost at sea. It is a tragedy made all the more real by the voices of men—now long deceased—who sailed through and survived the storm, and by a remarkable array of photographs documenting the phenomenal damage this not-so-perfect storm wreaked. The consummate storyteller of Great Lakes lore, Michael Schumacher at long last brings this violent storm to terrifying life, from its first stirrings through its slow-mounting destructive fury to its profound aftereffects, many still felt to this day.

People of the Lakes

Author : Kathleen O'Neal Gear,W. Michael Gear
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1995-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466817791

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People of the Lakes by Kathleen O'Neal Gear,W. Michael Gear Pdf

Set in what will become Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky and Michigan, People of the Lakes is another spellbinding epic in New York Times and USA Today bestelling authors' W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear's North America's Forgotten past saga. Clan fighting over a powerful totemic mask has brought the Mound Builder people of the Great Lakes region to the edge of destruction. It is up to Star Shell, daughter of a Hopewell chief, to rid her people of this curse. Along with her companions: Otter, a trader; Pearl, a runaway; and Green Spider, either prophet or madman, she braves the stormy waters of the lakes to reach the majestic waterfall known as Roaring Water. She is determined to banish the mask forever to a watery grave. But vengeful clan members are close on her heels, and they have a similar fate planned for her. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

"Keeping the Lakes' Way"

Author : Paula Pryce
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0802082238

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"Keeping the Lakes' Way" by Paula Pryce Pdf

Officially extinct, Sinixt Interior Salish living in diaspora work to protect their history, identity, and social memory through the protection of, and the act of reburial at, an ancient burial ground.

Creature at Graveyard Lakes

Author : Grady Lee Overstreet
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1462800955

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Creature at Graveyard Lakes by Grady Lee Overstreet Pdf

SANTA BARBARA--- In a seedy bar, just south of town A beer in my hand, I was looking around. Four strangers a-sitting at a table nearby Asked me to join them, so I bought them a round. They told me a story, a horrible tale about a Giant creature that lived at a lake. If ever you go, to the Sierra some day Never go camping in that out-of-way hole. Best heed now our warning and please stay away From that place in that mountain that goes by the name-Graveyard lakes

Iron Fleet

Author : George J. Joachim
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0814324797

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Iron Fleet by George J. Joachim Pdf

Iron Fleet focuses on the vital role played by the Great Lakes shipping industry during World War II. George J. Joachim examines how the industry met the unprecedented demand for the shipment of raw materials to meet production quotas during the war, when failure to do so would have had disastrous consequences for the nation's defense effort. Steel production was crucial to the American war effort, and the bulk shippers of the lakes supplied virtually all of the iron ore necessary to produce the steel. In describing the evolution of the Great Lakes shipping industry during World War II, Joachim also explores the use of Great Lakes shipyards for the production of salt water civilian and military vessels, the role of the Great Lakes passenger ships in providing vacation opportunities for war workers, and the extensive measures taken to to safeguard the Soo Locks and other potential targets from sabotage.

The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

Author : Dan Egan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780393246445

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The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan Pdf

New York Times Bestseller Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Award "Nimbly splices together history, science, reporting and personal experiences into a taut and cautiously hopeful narrative.… Egan’s book is bursting with life (and yes, death)." —Robert Moor, New York Times Book Review The Great Lakes—Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior—hold 20 percent of the world’s supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance, work, and recreation for tens of millions of Americans. But they are under threat as never before, and their problems are spreading across the continent. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes is prize-winning reporter Dan Egan’s compulsively readable portrait of an ecological catastrophe happening right before our eyes, blending the epic story of the lakes with an examination of the perils they face and the ways we can restore and preserve them for generations to come.

Mighty Fitz

Author : Michael Schumacher
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781596919938

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Mighty Fitz by Michael Schumacher Pdf

The disappearance of the Edmund Fitzgerald remains one of the great unsolved mysteries in maritime history. Michael Schumacher relays in vivid detail the story of the Edmund Fitzgerald, its many productive years on the waters of the Great Lakes, its tragic demise, the search effort and investigation, as well as the speculation and the controversy that followed in the wake of the disaster. Michael Schumacher is the author of six books. He has written 25 documentaries on Great Lakes shipwrecks, including three about the Edmund Fitzgerald. "In his ballad, Mr. Lightfoot sang about the Fitz's final tense moments, when "the waves turn minutes to hours: Now the hours have lengthened into years and years into decades-but the allure of this doomed ship and its missing men remains as strong as ever."-Wall Street Journal

Cradle to Grave

Author : Larry Lankton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1993-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190282073

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Concentrating on technology, economics, labor, and social history, Cradle to Grave documents the full life cycle of one of America's great mineral ranges from the 1840s to the 1960s. Lankton examines the workers' world underground, but is equally concerned with the mining communities on the surface. For the first fifty years of development, these mining communities remained remarkably harmonious, even while new, large companies obliterated traditional forms of organization and work within the industry. By 1890, however, the Lake Superior copper industry of upper Michigan started facing many challenges, including strong economic competition and a declining profit margin; growing worker dissatisfaction with both living and working conditions; and erosion of the companies' hegemony in a district they once controlled. Lankton traces technological changes within the mines and provides a thorough investigation of mine accidents and safety. He then focuses on social and labor history, dealing especially with the issue of how company paternalism exerted social control over the work force. A social history of technology, Cradle to Grave will appeal to labor, social and business historians.

Shipwrecks of the Great Lakes

Author : Paul Hancock
Publisher : Thunder Bay Press Michigan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2001-06
Category : Shipwrecks
ISBN : 1882376846

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Shipwrecks of the Great Lakes by Paul Hancock Pdf

Containing almost a fifth of the world's fresh water, the Great Lakes system of Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario in North America are vast inland expanses, and subject to the same hazards for shipping more commonly found on the high seas. Since the seventeenth century, when the first wooden vessels of colonists and adventurers set a course across them, the lakes have claimed many ships as well as the lives of those unfortunates aboard them. Shipwrecks of the Great Lakes narrates the tales of over a hundred of them. From the dramatic stories of the many ships that have foundered with all hands in the great storms that can sweep across the lakes, to the tales of vessels like the Gunilda, lost because her wealthy master refused to pay a few dollars for a pilot, this book is packed with the fascinating narratives of Great Lakes disasters. Including photographs of the boats it is also a document of change and progress, showing how the ships have been developed over the centuries as well as the industrial cities and towns that have grown from the wealth brought by the shipping lanes of the lakes. From the griffon, which went down without a trace in 1679, to the more recent disaster of the Edmund Fitzgerald, which was ripped apart and sank with all twenty-nine lives onboard lost, Shipwrecks of the Great Lakes includes tales of courage and tragedy, stupidity and heroism. Inside find: The tales of over a hundred of the most famous shipwrecks on North America's Great Lakes, including the Edmund Fitzgerald, Daniel J. Morrell, Eastland, and many more. Fully illustrated with archival photography. Chronological listing of wrecks. Dramatic stories of the ships' last moments - the tragedies, courage, and the miraculous rescues.

Shipwrecks of the Great Lakes

Author : Cheryl MacDonald
Publisher : Amazing Stories
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1552774929

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Shipwrecks of the Great Lakes by Cheryl MacDonald Pdf

We all know that ships have been lost on the oceans but how many of us are aware that over 6,000 ships have gone to a watery grave on Canada's Great Lakes? Cheryl MacDonald's new book recounts the the most unforgettable disasters on the Great Lakese from the sinking of LaSalle's Frontenac in 1678 to the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975.

Strangers and Sojourners

Author : Arthur W. Thurner
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0814323960

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Strangers and Sojourners by Arthur W. Thurner Pdf

Arthur Thurner tells of the enormous struggle of the diverse immigrants who built and sustained energetic towns and communities, creating a lively civilization in what was essentially a forest wilderness. Their story is one of incredible economic success and grim tragedy in which mine workers daily risked their lives. By highlighting the roles women, African Americans, and Native Americans played in the growth of the Keweenaw community, Thurner details a neglected and ignored past. The history of Keweenaw Peninsula for the past one hundred and fifty years reflects contemporary American culture--a multicultural, pluralistic, democratic welfare state still undergoing evolution. Strangers and Sojourners, with its integration of social and economic history, for the first time tells the complete story of the people from the Keweenaw Peninsula's Baraga, Houghton, Keweenaw, and Ontonagon counties.

Too Much Sea for Their Decks

Author : Michael Schumacher
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781452970080

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Too Much Sea for Their Decks by Michael Schumacher Pdf

Shipwreck stories from along Minnesota’s north shore of Lake Superior and Isle Royale Against the backdrop of the extraordinary history of Great Lakes shipping, Too Much Sea for Their Decks chronicles shipwrecked schooners, wooden freighters, early steel-hulled steamers, whalebacks, and bulk carriers—some well-known, some unknown or forgotten—all lost in the frigid waters of Lake Superior. Included are compelling accounts of vessels destined for infamy, such as that of the Stranger, a slender wooden schooner swallowed by the lake in 1875, the sailors’ bodies never recovered nor the wreckage ever found; an account of the whaleback Wilson, rammed by a large commercial freighter in broad daylight and in calm seas, sinking before many on board could escape; and the mysterious loss of the Kamloops, a package freighter that went down in a storm and whose sailors were found on the Isle Royale the following spring, having escaped the wreck only to die of exposure on the island. Then there is the ill-fated Steinbrenner, plagued by bad luck from the time of her construction, when she was nearly destroyed by fire, to her eventual (and tragic) sinking in 1953. These tales and more represent loss of life and property—and are haunting stories of brave and heroic crews. Arranged chronologically and presented in three sections covering Minnesota's North Shore, Isle Royale, and the three biggest storms in Minnesota’s Great Lakes history (the 1905 Mataafa storm, the 1913 hurricane on the lakes, and the 1940 Armistice Day storm), each shipwreck documented within these pages provides a piece to the history of shipping on Lake Superior.

Windjammers

Author : Ivan Walton,Joe Grimm
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0814329977

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Windjammers by Ivan Walton,Joe Grimm Pdf

A collection of stories, lyrics, music and folklore centered on the Great Lakes.

Ninety Years Crossing Lake Michigan

Author : Grant Brown
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472050499

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Ninety Years Crossing Lake Michigan by Grant Brown Pdf

An illustrated book about the visionary, risky, and influential business of transporting loaded railroad cars across Lake Michigan