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Lake Heron American Lakes Series by Fred Landon Hard cover 1944
Lake Heron American Lakes Series by Fred Landon
Lake Heron
The American Lakes Series
Fred Landon
Hard Cover
Ex- Library Book
398 pages
Copyright 1944
Contents
Part I
EARLY DAYS ON LAKE HURON
CHAPTERPAGE
1. CHAMPLAIN'S FRESHWATER SEA 17
2. THE PATHFINDERS 28
3. OLD HURONIA: CRADLE OF MARTYRS 39
4. WHEN FUR WAS KING 61
5. WAR COMES TO LAKE HURON 71
Part II
ISLANDS, SHORES AND RIVERS
6. ALONG THE MICHIGAN STRAND 97
7. UP THE CANADIAN SHORE 115
8. AROUND THE SHORES OF GEORGIAN BAY 137
9. ALONG THE ST. CLAIR RIVER 148
10. AMONG LAKE HURON'S MYRIAD ISLANDS 175
11. THE MAGIC ISLAND IN THE STRAITS 200
Part III
FOUR LAKE HURON STORIES
12. A VICTORIAN LADY VISITS LAKE HURON 233
13. WILLIAM BEAUMONT: "BACKWOODS PHYSIOLOGIST" . 247
14. "PIRATICAL DOINGS ON THE RIVER ST. CLAIR" 257
15. THE Pewabic AND THE Asia 272
Part IV
THE SHIPS AND THE MEN WHO SAIL THEM
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16. THE SURVEYORS AND THEIR CHARTS 285
17. GEORGIAN BAY SHIPS AND SAILORS 304
18. THE GREAT STORM OF 1913 325
19. "THE STATELY SHIPS GO ON" 335
20. LAKE VESSELS PAST AND PRESENT 345
EPILOGUE 366
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE . . 375
INDEX 383
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
FACING
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An Early Map of Lake Huron 36
Old Sainte Marie I Today 37
Presque Isle Lighthouse 80
A Lake Huron Fisherman 81
Loading Limestone at Alpena 122
One of the Self-Unloaders 122
An Old-Time Lumber Hooker 123
The United Empire 123
In Schooner Days 166
An Indian Rendezvous on Drummond Island 167
An Indian Encampment on Lake Huron 167
Looking out upon the Straits 208
A Corner of Old Fort Mackinac 208
Within Old Fort Mackinac 209
Old Fort Mackinac 209
Dr. William Beaumont 250
General George Gordon Meade 251
The Lost Asia 278
Happy Days on Georgian Bay 278
Waiting the Word to Go 279
Lake Carriers of Today 316
The Colonel James M. Schoonmaker 316
The Largest on the Lakes 317
A Great Lakes Oil Tanker 317
The Governor Miller 338
The Colonel James Pickands 338
The South American 339
The City of Cheboygan 339
The Entrance to Lake Huron 360
EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION
SAVE for Lake Victoria in Africa, Superior, Huron, and Michigan are the largest lakes in the world. Along with Erie and Ontario they constitute a chain of fresh-water seas without parallel elsewhere on the globe. Moreover, unlike Lake Victoria, their shores are occupied by two of the world's most progressive nations, whose people are surpassed by none in intelligence and industry. It follows as a matter of course that the Great Lakes exert a well-nigh incalculable influence upon the continent to which they belong.
First of the chain to be discovered by white men was Lake Huron. Since its French discoverers knew nothing as yet of the other lakes, they called it La Mer Doucethe sweet or fresh-water sea. Beside it was founded, before the middle of the seventeenth century, the first center of French civilization west of the lower St. Lawrence Valley, and this became a training ground for the further advance over the remaining lakes and the Mississippi Valley. Until the close of the seventeenth century Lake Huron was a part of the principal highway between Lower Canada and the Upper Country, and a great international highway it remains at the present day. Oddly enough, however, its scenic and other resources have been but little advertised. Probably few Americans have ever learned that both the largest and longest fresh-water island in the world lies in Lake Huron, nor can even the brightest radio expert give the precise number of its remaining islands.
In the planning of The American Lakes Series it has been constantly kept in mind that while the volumes are written by scholars they are intended for the use and enjoyment of laymen. All of the authors are competent historians, familiar with methods of historical investigation and specialists in their own particular fields of study. All have been chosen, too, for their ability to write and for their sympathetic understanding of the language and interests of common men and women. All have striven to combine the qualities of scholarly accuracy and popular interest, believing that the sober truth of American history requires no fictitious adornment and that, properly presented, it suffers from no lack of drama or of glamour.
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