The Great Lakes
by James Oliver Curwood
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About this eBook
- Author
- Curwood, James Oliver, 1878-1927
- Title
- The Great Lakes The Vessels That Plough Them: Their Owners, Their Sailors, and Their Cargoes, Together with a Brief History of Our Inland Seas
- Credits
- Produced by Roger Frank, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- HE: Social sciences: Transportation and communications
- Subject
- Inland navigation -- United States
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 52976
- Release Date
- September 4, 2016
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.The Great Lakes
- 2.Preface
- 3.Contents
- 4.Illustrations
- 5.PART I The Ships, their Owners, their Sailors, and their Cargoes
- 6.I The Building of the Ships
- 7.II What the Ships Carry—Ore
- 8.III What the Ships Carry—Other Cargoes
- 9.IV Passenger Traffic and Summer Life
- 10.V The Romance and Tragedy of the Inland Seas
- 11.VI Buffalo and Duluth: the Alpha and Omega of the Lakes
- 12.VII A Trip on a Great Lakes Freighter
- 13.PART II Origin and History of the Lakes
- 14.I Origin and Early History
- 15.II The Lakes Change Masters
- 16.III The War of 1812 and After — INDEX
- 17.American Waterways — The Romance of the Colorado River — The Ohio River A COURSE OF EMPIRE — Narragansett Bay — The Great Lakes — The St. Lawrence River — The Niagara River — The Hudson River FROM OCEAN TO SOURCE — The Connecticut River AND THE Valley of the Connecticut THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY MILES FROM MOUNTAIN TO SEA — The Columbia River
- 18.Transcriber’s Notes
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