Maritime

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Ninety Years Crossing Lake Michigan

The History of the Ann Arbor Car Ferries

By Grant Brown
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, History, History, American History, Maritime

An illustrated book about the visionary, risky, and influential business of transporting loaded railroad cars across Lake Michigan

Making Waves

Michigan’s Boat-Building Industry, 1865-2000

By Scott M Peters
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, History, History, Labor History, Maritime

An entertaining study of how Michigan put American boat building on the map

Ladies of the Lights

Michigan Women in the U.S. Lighthouse Service

By Patricia Majher
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, Maritime, History

Stories about fifty historic female lighthouse keepers

Deckhand

Life on Freighters of the Great Lakes

By Nelson Haydamacker & Alan D. Millar
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, History, Maritime

The colorful tale of a deckhand's life on Great Lakes ore-boats

Lives and Legends of the Christmas Tree Ships

By Frederick H. Neuschel
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, History, Maritime

The real life stories behind one of the most popular tales of the Great Lakes---the 1912 sinking of the Rouse Simmons

Many a Midnight Ship

True Stories of Great Lakes Shipwrecks

By Mark Bourrie
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, History, Maritime, History

Riveting stories of maritime tragedies on North America's "inland seas"

The Cedarville Conspiracy

Indicting U.S. Steel

By L. Stephen Cox
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, Maritime, History

The first Great Lakes history to expose the heroism, villainy, courage, and confusion surrounding the tragedy of the freighter Cedarville

Guardian of the Great Lakes

The U.S. Paddle Frigate Michigan

By Bradley A. Rodgers
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, Maritime, History, American History, History

Details the history of the iron-hulled war steamer USS "Michigan"

Sweetwater, Storms, and Spirits

Stories of the Great Lakes

Edited by Victoria Brehm
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, Maritime, Literary Studies, American Literature
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