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Author : Charles E. Feltner,Jeri Baron Feltner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Transportation
ISBN : UOM:39015022232295
Author : Benjamin J. Shelak
Publisher : Big Earth Publishing
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 1931599211
"Shipwrecks of Lake Michigan" is a comprehensive collection of information about legendary wrecks on Lake Michigan--1800 to present. Author Benjamin J. Shelak.
Author : Wes Oleszewski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015071187747
It is best for the reader to be prepared at this point - because the tales contained here are true and have been reconstructed in terrifying reality. With only occasional dialogue being synthesized for color, every fact has been checked and cross-checked for truth. In every case the greatest pains were taken to insure that when the reader does visit the locations of these stories, his view will be factual."--Pub. desc.
Author : William Ratigan
Publisher : New York : Galahad Books, [1974?] c1960 [i.e. c1969]
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Great Lakes
ISBN : UOM:39015071187945
Author : David D. Swayze
Publisher : Harbor House (GA)
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015071188513
Author : Jack D. Parker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : 093221245X
Author : Kelly Pucci
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467149181
Whether prehistoric and glacially slow or swift and modern, countless changes to Mackinac Island have driven much of its history out of sight and memory. Eons ago, waves washed away soft rock to leave behind limestone formations like Arch Rock, which have survived virtually unchanged for thousands of years. Other natural curiosities were regrettably destroyed in the twentieth century. To this day, the Grand Hotel welcomes guests from around the world but lost are smaller hotels such as the New Mackinac and the Lasley House, where a large--and live--bear stood chained to the front door. Steamships and schooners that brought celebrities like Mark Twain and members of the Barnum & Bailey Circus to the island long ago sank in the Straits. Author and historian Kelly Pucci explores the lost history of Mackinac Island.
Author : Steve Harrington
Publisher : Partners Publishers Group
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Travel
ISBN : UOM:39015071374162
Author : William Ratigan
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1989-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467435154
In this breathtaking chronicle of the most spectacular shipwrecks and survivals on the Great Lakes, William Ratigan re-creates vivid scenes of high courage and screaming panic from which no reader can turn away. Included in this striking catalog of catastrophes and Flying Dutchmen are the magnificent excursion liner Eastland, which capsized at her pier in the Chicago River, drowning 835 people within clutching distance of busy downtown streets; the shipwrecked steel freighter Mataafa, which dumped its crew into freezing waters while the snowbound town of Duluth looked on; the dark Sunday in November 1913 when Lake Huron swallowed eight long ships without a man surviving to tell the tale; and the bitter November of 1958 when the Bradley went down in Lake Michigan during one of the greatest killer storms on the freshwater seas. An entire section is dedicated to the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald -- the most famous maritime loss in modern times -- in Lake Superior in 1975. Chilling watercolor illustrations, photographs, maps, and news clippings accentuate Ratigan's compelling and dramatic storytelling. Sailors, historians, and general readers alike will be swept away by these unforgettable tales of tragedy and heroism.
Author : Cris Kohl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Great Lakes (North America)
ISBN : UOM:39015071187184
Author : Lois T. Hauck,Gary Hauck
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781475985078
Ed Pusick was a quiet and eccentric man, a bachelor all his life, whose passion was his artwork. After his time in the Navy when an accident disabled his legs for the rest of his life, Ed became a source of many inventive designs as a professional but apparently never took the trouble to seek patents, recognition, nor much gratitude for his work. Ed later drew sketches as an illustrator for an architectural firm in Grand Rapids, where he met a co-worker who encouraged him to begin drawings of Great Lakes shipwrecks. Eds shipwreck art became prolific. He created a series of drawings of the most famous vessels of the Great Lakes shipwreck coasts. Many of these have been published over the years in the Shipwreck Journal, featured on the History Channel, displayed in museums, and used to illustrate history books and other publications. Many of these drawings from Pusick, known as the Master of Disaster, were produced as limited edition prints. Lois Hauck, Eds caregiver during the last years of his life explains, Ed frequently said he would take his secret of drawing angry waves to his grave. And he did. This narrative describes the stories and works that were passed on to Lois.
Author : Cris Kohl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Great Lakes (North America)
ISBN : PSU:000056077339
Author : Janet Young
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1649709935
One of the greatest ship graveyards in the world lies below a treacherous span of water extending from Thunder Bay (Alpena) to the Straits of Mackinac's lower entrance. In the 19th century, veteran navigators regarded this section on the upper waters of Lake Huron as one of the most dangerous stretches on the Great Lakes. Sailors justifiably named this long, narrow strip of water Shipwreck Alley. The northern portion of Shipwreck Alley runs along the forested shores of Michigan's Presque Isle County.In the late 1800s, the Chicago Tribune reported that fully 90% of the thousands of vessels employed in commerce on the Great Lakes routinely navigated along this less than four-mile-wide corridor. To save valuable time (and money), both upbound and downbound captains generally preferred sailing on the shorter route closer to shore rather than on Huron's distant wide-open waters. Consequently, the risk of collisions increased with fleets of vessels traveling in opposite directions on the same heavily-trafficked lane. In 1888, The Inter Ocean related: "Presque Isle is the point that agitates the body and mind of the lake navigators. Many a boat has met its fate there."Presque Isle's Shipwreck Alley relates the stories of seventeen amazing ships that met their demise on upper Lake Huron. Four of the extremely intact shipwreck sites are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The vessels appear ready to sail as they did well over a century ago and attract ship hunters and divers from around the globe. The shipwreck stories in this volume are intertwined with short biographies of the vessel owners, commanders, shipbuilders, and when possible, information about the crew and passengers aboard the ill-fated vessel. The history of each shipwreck encompasses the vessel's career from its construction through its final voyage, and in some cases, relate details found in court records in the inevitable law suits that frequently followed the loss of a vessel. Examples of success as well as difficulties encountered in conducting commerce on the lakes are illustrated throughout the chapters.
Author : Mark L. Thompson
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004-04-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0814332269
A historically accurate, well-rounded picture of shipwrecks on the Great Lakes.
Author : Kathy S. Mason
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780870139352
In 1872, the world’s first national park was founded at Yellowstone. Although ideas of nature conservation were not embraced generally by the American public, five more parks were created before the turn of the century. By 1916, the year that the National Park Service was born, the country could boast of fourteen national parks, including such celebrated areas as Yosemite and Sequoia. Kathy Mason demonstrates that Congress, park superintendents, and the American public were forming general, often tacit notions of the parks’ purpose before the new bureau was established. Although the Park Service recently has placed some emphasis on protecting samples of North America’s ecosystems, the earliest national parks were viewed as natural museums—monuments to national grandeur that would edify visitors. Not only were these early parks to preserve monumental and unique natural attractions, but they also had to be of no use to mining, lumbering, agriculture, and other “productive” industries. Natural Museums examines the notions of park monumentalism, “worthlessness,” and national significance, as well as the parks’ roles as wilderness preserves and recreational centers.