Lost passenger steamships of Lake Michigan
By: Ted St. Mane
Publisher: History Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9781596299429
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Vanished industry; title: Emigration and westward expansion; title: The passenger experience; title: Breakfast; title: Lunch; title: Dinner; title: 1847 : burning of the propeller Phoenix; title: 1856 : burning of the steamer Niagara; title: 1860 : loss of the Lady Elgin on Lake Michigan; title: 1868 : loss of the propeller Hippocampus; title: 1868 : steamer Sea Bird burned; title: 1887 : steamer Vernon sinks in Lake Michigan; title: Working the lakes; title: Early twentieth-century steamers; title: War on the lakefront; title: The Black Hawk War; title: The Civil War; title: Spanish American War; title: World War I; title: World War II; title: The last generation.