{"product_id":"schooner-passage-sailing-ships-and-the-lake-michigan-frontier-9780814329115","title":"Schooner Passage: Sailing Ships and the Lake Michigan Frontier","description":"\u003cp\u003eThroughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, schooner trade was a well-developed system of maritime transport for commodities such as grain, lumber, and iron. The schooner trade was as critical to the development of the Great Lakes region as covered wagons were to the Far West and paddle wheel steamers were to the South.\u003cbr\u003e Schooners sailed the Great Lakes in large\u003cbr\u003e numbers and played a formative role in the\u003cbr\u003e shaping of pioneer life throughout the region. The schooners that traveled the Lake Michigan basin succeeded in bringing a range of shoreline communities and four separate states into one coherent region. Although schooners successfully competed with steam vessels for more than a half-century, wooden sailing ships could not match the scale of the giant steel bulk carriers that began to emerge from shipyards in the twentieth century. The Mary A. Gregory--one of the last schooners left--was torched, sunk, and buried in Lake\u003cbr\u003e Michigan in 1926. Schooner Passage is a\u003cbr\u003e history of these magnificent sailing vessels\u003cbr\u003e and their role in maritime trade along Lake\u003cbr\u003e Michigan.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Theodore J. Karamanski shares with the reader the stories of the men and women who sailed on the schooners, their labor issues and strikes, the role of the schooner in the maritime economy along the Lake Michigan basin, and the factors that led to the eventual demise of that economy in the early twentieth century. Karamanski has put together historical accounts from newspaper clippings, historical society archives, and government documents to provide one of the few available histories of schooners.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Schooner Passage will interest scholars and students of Great Lakes and American history as well as the general reader interested in nineteenth-century western expansion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Theodore J. Karamanski\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Great Lakes Books Series\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.29lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.35h x 6.35w x 0.94d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814329115\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2001 pg. 375\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTheodore Karamanski is Associate Professor of History at Loyola University of Chicago.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Great Lakes Books Series","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40414639063155,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":71.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_87cae7b0-6196-4c5b-bc96-93331d00b1b5.jpg?v=1662212960","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/schooner-passage-sailing-ships-and-the-lake-michigan-frontier-9780814329115","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}