The Great Lakes The Vessels That Plough Them: Their Owners, Their Sailors, and Their Cargoes, Together with a Brief History of Our Inland Seas

Not long ago, I was on a Lake freighter pounding her way up Huron on the “thousand-mile highway” that leads to Duluth. Beside me was a man who had climbed from poverty to millio...

While the modern romance of the Great Lakes, the vast commerce that has grown upon them, the great cities along their shores, and the part they have played in the history of the...

_Steamer “Western States”_ 84 _One of the largest and fastest boats on the Lakes. Carries 2500 people and her fastest speed is 20 miles an hour._ _From a Photograph by Detroit P...