Author: John Brandt MansfieldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Lakes (North America)
Languages : en
Pages : 972
Book Description
History of the Great Lakes ...
Author: John Brandt MansfieldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Lakes (North America)
Languages : en
Pages : 972
Book Description
Great Lakes Stories
Author: Ray I. McGrathPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Haunted Lakes II
Author: Frederick StonehousePublisher: Duluth, Minn. : Lake Superior Port Cities
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Spirits, sea serpents and superstitions. The inland seas of the Great Lakes hold just as many spellbinding ghostly tales as the salt-water seas. One book simply couldn't carry all of the hauntings of these massive lakes - so now comes Haunted Lakes II, sequel to the popular Haunted Lakes. Once again noted maritime author Frederick Stonehouse compiles the mystifying tales of ghosts on boats, under water and in lighthouses, of underwater creatures and shipboard superstitions in an entertaining collection gathered from true believers. This is the perfect companion to the first Haunted Lakes and has become a Great Lakes classic in its own right.
Lore of the Lakes
Author: Dana Thomas BowenPublisher: Thunder Bay Press Michigan
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Thrilling true stories of Great Lakes ships fill this 320-page volume. Highlights of events in Great Lakes history are told in the beginning chapter capsulizing great moments of adventure on the Inland Seas. This is followed by true tales of bygone and later ships of the lakes fleets, combining romance and industry to tell the saga of commercial shipping. Here are the tales of the sturdy lake vessels from the earliest explorer and fur trader to the more modern lake steamer. This book is "all boat" from cover to cover and includes nearly one hundred photographs. This expansive collection of pictures is a rare assemblage.Appeal is enhanced in this volume by a list of the Great Lakes major ship disasters, tables of sailing distances between various lake ports, sailing times for a normal transit, a nautical scale and a thorough index to the more than three hundred and fifty ships mentioned in the book.
Ghosts of the Great Lakes
Author: Megan LongPublisher: Thunder Bay Press Michigan
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
The Great Lakes have a colorful past that spans hundreds of years, stretches over thousands of miles... and sometimes crosses into the spirit world. Ghosts of the Great Lakes takes readers from the far eastern shores of Lake Ontario to western Lake Superior, revealing haunting and strange tales. These whispers from the other side, however, are based in history and fact. One lighthouse site hides the bones of a murdered keeper. Rapping sounds in a family home mark the beginning of the Spiritualist movement in North America. A bride has a premonition that her honeymoon ride will end in death... and soon after, the steamer she was on vanishes. Repeated sightings of ghost ships. Can these strange phenomena be attributed to the imagination? How can multiple sightings be explained away as mere tricks of light and fog? Read these historical accounts of the Great Lakes' most fascinating ghost stories and judge for yourself--are they more than mere legend? Where does fact end... and folklore begin?
Tales from the Great Lakes
Author: Robert B. TownsendPublisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1554883024
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
For more than two hundred years, thousands of giant sailing ships traversed the Great Lakes carrying cargo and passengers. The memory of the romance and elegance of these beautiful ships has almost been forgotten in the search for greater efficiency and speed in our modern world. C.H.J. Snider (1879-1971) chronicled this era in his 1,303 "Schooner Days" columns for Toronto’s The Evening Telegram between 1931 and 1954. A great marine researcher and artist, Snider himself worked aboard schooners in his youth and studied first-hand the development of the Great Lakes region. Coupled with Snider’s writings are those of Robert B. Townsend, who, besides introducing Snider’s stories, adds some of his own.
A Pictorial History of the Great Lakes
Author: Harlan HatcherPublisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
ISBN: 9780517099612
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Death & Lighthouses on the Great Lakes: A History of Murder and Misfortune
Author: Dianna Higgs StampflerPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467149950
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The author of Michigan's Haunted Lighthouses shares tales of disaster and misfortune on the Great Lakes. Losing one's life while tending to a Great Lakes lighthouse sadly wasn't such an unusual occurrence. Death by murder, suicide or other tragic causes--while rare--were not unheard of. Two keepers on Lake Superior's Grand Island disappeared one early summer day in 1908, their decomposed remains found weeks later. A newly hired and some say depressed keeper on Pilot Island in Wisconsin's Door County slit his own throat after a consultation with a local butcher about the location of the jugular vein. A smallpox outbreak in the late 1890s led to the tragic death of a lighthouse hired hand on South Bass Island in Lake Erie. Join author Dianna Stampfler as she uncovers the facts (and debunks some fiction) behind some of the Great Lakes' darkest lighthouse tales.
Haunted Lakes
Author: Frederick StonehousePublisher: Duluth, Minn. : Lake Superior Port Cities
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Lake Erie Stories
Author: Chad FraserPublisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1550027824
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
This thoroughly researched history explores the personalities and events that have shaped Lake Erie and the towns and cities that surround it.