Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes

• Hoofdauteur: Thompson, Mark L. (auth)
• Formaat: Elektronisch Hoofdstuk
• Taal: Engels
• Gepubliceerd in: Wayne State University Press 2017
• Onderwerpen: Regional studies
• Online toegang: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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 saili...