Lake Michigan passenger steamers / George W. Hilton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hilton, George W. (George Woodman)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Inland navigation--Michigan, Lake--History.

Inland navigation.

Lake steamers--Michigan, Lake--History.

Lake steamers.

Passenger ships--Michigan, Lake.

Passenger ships.

Shipping--Michigan, Lake.

Shipping.

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 364 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2002.

Summary:

This is the definitive account of the rise, fall, and extinction of steam passenger transportation on Lake Michigan from its origin in the late 1840s to the demise of the last steamers in 1970.

Contents:

Part 1. The Industry

1. The Lake 3

Improvement of the Lake 18

2. Early Navigation 25

3. The Ships 54

Sailing Vessels 54

Paddle Steamers 59

Buffalo-Chicago Steamers 59

Early Lake Michigan Steamers 61

Detroit and Milwaukee 62

Late Paddle Steamers 69

Propeller Steamers 72

Steam Barges 83

Steel Propellers 87

Christopher Columbus 94

4. Traffic 103

Passenger and Fruit Traffic 103

General Cargo 129

Economic Organization 131

5. The Decline 140

Rise of Motor Transport 140

The La Follette Seamen's Act 148

The Eastland Disaster 150

World War I 151

Motorization of the Mosquito Fleets 154

Municipal Pier 156

The Georgian Bay Line 158

The Final Mergers 160

Part 2. Corporate Histories

Indiana Transportation Company 177

Graham & Morton Transportation Company 195

Chicago & South Haven Steamship Company 218

Crawford Transportation Company 236

Holland & Chicago Transportation Company 244

Goodrich Transit Company 255

The Milwaukee Cross-Lake Ferry Line 278

Pere Marquette Line Steamers 295

Northern Michigan Transportation Company 304

Hart Steamboat Line 316

The Great Lakes System of Commands 325

Fleet Lists 326.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0804742405

OCLC:

49942913