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Beyond the windswept dunes : the story of maritime Muskegon /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sherman, Elizabeth B (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Detroit, Mich. : Wayne State University Press, [2003]
Series:Great Lakes books.
Subjects:
Muskegon Region (Mich.) > History, Naval.
Muskegon Region (Mich.) > Commerce > History.
Muskegon Region (Mich.) > Economic conditions.
Shipping > Michigan > Muskegon Region > History.
Lumber trade > Michigan > Muskegon Region > History.
Inland navigation > Michigan > Muskegon Region > History.
Navigation > Michigan, Lake > History.
Shipwrecks > Michigan > Muskegon Region > History.
Shipwrecks > Michigan, Lake > History.
Navigation > Michigan, Lac > Histoire.
Naufrages > Michigan, Lac > Histoire.
Commerce.
Economic history.
Inland navigation.
Lumber trade.
Navigation.
Shipping.
Shipwrecks.
Lake Michigan.
Michigan > Muskegon Region.
History.
Naval history.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Hewn from the Wilderness: Muskegon's Earliest Days
  • Trapper, Trader, Soldiers, Spy: The Visit by the HMS Felicity
  • 2. Lumber Days on Muskegon's Waterfront
  • "Dreadful Endurance": The Neptune and Other Early Shipwrecks of Muskegon
  • A Tragic Homecoming: The Wreck of the Granada
  • Safe in the Sand: The Trial and the Annie Nelson
  • Semper Paratus: The Muskegon Lifesaving Crew and the Wreck of the R. B. King
  • "So Terrible a Reality": The Wrecks of the South Haven, the Helen, and the L. J. Conway
  • Legend and Mystery: The Fate of the Rouse Simmons and the Thomas Hume
  • "Frenchman, he don't lak to die": The Wreck of the Waukesha
  • The Charmed Life of the Lyman M. Davis
  • 3. Steamships and Car Ferries of Muskegon
  • Sailing Blind: The Wreck of the Wabash Valley
  • Lost to the Depths: The Wreck of the Alpena
  • A Steamer for All Seasons: The Alabama
  • Up Against the Big Guns: The Charles H. Hackley
  • "Carelessness Becomes a Mortgage to Danger": The Wreck of the Steam Barge Milwaukee
  • Trials by Fire: The Naomi and the Nyack
  • "They Will Probably Send Me to Hell": The Wreck of the Muskegon
  • Adrift in Changing Times: The Story of the Illinois and the Missouri
  • The "Queen of the Great Lakes": The Milwaukee Clipper
  • All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go: The Aquarama
  • "A Monster of Its Kind": Muskegon's First Car Ferry
  • The Shenango Legacy: The Grand Trunk Car Ferries
  • 4. Maritime Muskegon in the Twentieth Century
  • Bad Luck Comes in Threes: The Wreck of the Salvor
  • Psychic Intervention: The Wreck of Our Son
  • Breakwater Blues: The Wreck of the Henry W. Cort
  • Tragedy Averted: The Near-Wreck of the Fred W. Green
  • Coming Full Circle: The Highway 16/LST 393
  • Laid-Up Lakers: Steel Strikes of the 1950s
  • Breakwater Blues Reprise: The Ordeal of the Makefjell
  • Museum Ships: The USS Silversides and the USCGC McLane
  • The Halcyon's Days in Muskegon: From Seaside to Scrapheap
  • 5. Muskegon Today: New Ships and Old
  • Poem: The Good Captain
  • App. A. Angus Linklater/The Granada
  • App. B. Capt. J. D. Dunbar/The R. B. King
  • App. C. Frank Dulach/The Waukesha
  • App. D. Frank Dulach Reiterates
  • App. E. Toronto Evening Telegram/The Lyman M. Davis
  • App. F. Frank Blakefield/The Erie L. Hackley
  • App. G. "Doc" Ray Cooke/The Alabama
  • App. H. Guy E. Jones/The Naomi
  • App. I. Capt. Edward Miller/The Muskegon
  • App. J. Lyman Nedeau/The Salvor.