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Memories Of The Lakes Told In Story And Pictures By Dana Thomas Bowen w dust jac
Memories Of The Lakes Told In Story And Pictures By Dana Thomas Bowen
Hardbound With Dustcover has plastic protective covering
292 Pages
Copyright 1946, THIRD PRINTING 1969 NAME on front page
Dedication .Xv
Preface.1
A Word Of Explanation3
One-Did You Know That . . .?5
Two-Great Lakes Firsts.15
Three-The Old Lake Triplets21
Four-Steamboat Shorts30
Five-Pirates !.38
Six-The Tale Of The Pewabic .44
Seven-The Bones Of The Porcupine58
Eight-High Spots In Georgian Bay63
Nine-The Milan Canal75
Ten-Pictorial Section81
Eleven-The Floating Bethel145
Twelve-The Old Success.149
Thirteen-Our Son.155
Fourteen-The Lower Lights160
Fifteen-Grace Darling166
Sixteen-Yesteryears ..169
Seventeen-Tough Days175
Eighteen-The Friday Ship. 179
Nineteen-The Whalebacks .. 181
Twenty-The Mary Celeste ... 188
Twenty-One-The Flyer Of The Lakes. 196
Twenty-Two-
The Wreck Of The Western Reserve 201
Twenty-Three-Kafralu . 205
Twenty-Four-The 1905 Blow . 210
Twenty-Five-The Kaliyuga .. 245
Twenty-Six-The Soo Lock Accident 248
Twenty-Seven-
The Welland Canalers Of World War I253
Twenty-Eight-Sailor Couple .259
Twenty-Nine-The 1940 Armistice Day Storm 264
Acknowledgments ..276
Bibliography .... 278
Tables Of Sailing Distances On
The Great Lakes.. . 282
Index Of Ships.. 287
MEMORIES OF THE LAKES is history differently written. This work is more in the nature of a scrap book of past outstanding incidents of the Great Lakes, compiled in an interesting manner. All are true, and the dates and stories accurate. Many are from personal interviews.
The author delighted Great Lakes enthusiasts in 1940 with his first book, LORE OF THE LAKES, which was instantly accepted and is still in demand. His readers requested more from his pen on the same subject. MEMORIES OF THE LAKES is offered to meet this demand.
As in his previous book, Mr. Bowen has developed a large and interesting Pictorial Section. Shown in carefully selected pictures are famous old Great Lakes ships, from the early schooners to the palatial sidewheel passenger steamers of recent years-all of them now memories.
Lovers of both ships and books will find MEMORIES OF THE LAKES much to their liking. It should also be considered a handy reference book on the bygone days of the Great Lakes. Nearly five hundred ships are mentioned in the book, each accurately placed.
PREFACE
The complete history of the Great Lakes will, of course, never be told. Many volumes have been written and many more may be forthcoming, but all the detailed history of these great bodies of fresh water can never be recorded. Every mile of shore line has its own story, as has every ship. Many men and ships have long since passed from the beautiful shores of these lakes and their valiant stories are buried with them.
Today we can only retell those tales that have been handed down to us by letter and word. A few men still live who can talk first hand of actual experiences aboard the bygone windjammers of the lakes, and of those early struggles of the creaking wooden steamers to gain a foothold in the realm of commercial transportation.
It has been the author's pleasure to search out many of these old sailors and to listen to their adventures. Every available old book and record pertaining to the subject has been carefully studied. The maze of material is astounding from which to make the selections of the most interesting stories. The years gone by have piled up wondrous tales, and herein is a modest attempt to retell only a few of them. That they may be as fascinating to the reader as they were to the author is the purpose of this book.
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