Item #440 Steaming Through Smoke and Fire, 1871: True Stories of Shipwreck and Disaster on the Great Lakes. James L. Donahue.
Steaming Through Smoke and Fire, 1871: True Stories of Shipwreck and Disaster on the Great Lakes

Steaming Through Smoke and Fire, 1871: True Stories of Shipwreck and Disaster on the Great Lakes

Thunder Bay Press, 1996. Paperback. New softcover in glossy wraps. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes bibliography, index, and B&W photographs. 162 pp.

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ISBN: 9781882376308

From the publisher, "Great Lakes historian James L. Donahue gives readers a rare and exciting glimpse of life on the Great Lakes in the fateful year of 1871. But it is much more than just a collection of stories about the vessels that were lost between Duluth and Quebec and from Oswego to Chicago. The stories in this book take a slice out of Great Lakes history and paint a broad view of what was happening during the dynamic years after the Civil War. The stories are true accounts about the hundreds of disasters and near-disasters that happened in just one year. They also look into the way politics of the period affected shipping, the lumber empire and the opening of a way for larger ships and heavier cargos. Steaming Through Smoke and Fire examines the living conditions - and unfortunately, the dying conditions - of the sailors. Read about the true adventure and drama of the Great Lakes: The terror of a night fire at sea aboard the burning propeller J. Barber on Lake Michigan! The strange curse on the hoodoo ship Maine which burned three times, sank once, and then blew up! Dare to step aboard the doomed tugboat B. B. Jones before it blew itself to atoms at Port Huron!"

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