Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes / / Mark L. Thompson.
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...
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Place / Publishing House: | Detroit : : Wayne State University Press,, 2017. |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Great Lakes Books Series
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (231 pages) :; illustrations. |
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