The Great Lakes: The Vessels That Plough Them: Their Owners, Their Sailors, and Their Cargoes, Together with a Brief History of Our Inland SeasCurwood, James Oliver
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The Great Lakes: The Vessels That Plough Them: Their Owners, Their Sailors, and Their Cargoes, Together with a Brief History of Our Inland Seas
Curwood, James Oliver
Great Lakes (North America); Inland navigation -- United States; Shipping -- Great Lakes (North America)
Associate professor of American History, Marietta College, Author of
“Historic Highways of America,” etc.
_390 pages, with 100 Illustrations and a Map. $3.50 net_
An interesting description from a fresh point of view of the
international struggle which ended with the English conquest of the
Ohio Basin, and includes many interesting details of the pioneer
movement on the Ohio. The most widely read students of the Ohio Valley
will find a unique and unexpected interest in Mr. Hulbert’s chapters
dealing with the Ohio River in the Revolution, the rise of the cities
of Pittsburg, Cincinnati, and Louisville, the fighting Virginians, the
old-time methods of navigation, etc.
“A wonderfully comprehensive and entirely fascinating book.”--_Chicago
Inter-Ocean._
Narragansett Bay
_Its Historic and Romantic Associations and Picturesque Setting_
By Edgar Mayhew Bacon
Author of “The Hudson River,” “Chronicles of Tarrytown,” etc.
_340 pages, with 50 Drawings by the Author, and with Numerous
Photographs and a Map. $3.50 net_
Impressed by the important and singular part played by the settlers
of Narragansett in the development of American ideas and ideals, and
strongly attracted by the romantic tales that are inwoven with the
warp of history, as well as by the incomparable setting the great bay
affords for such a subject, the author offers this result of his labor
as a contribution to the story of great American Waterways, with the
hope that his readers may be imbued with somewhat of his own enthusiasm.
“An attractive description of the picturesque part of Rhode Island.
Mr. Bacon dwells on the natural beauties, the legendary and
historical associations, rather than the present appearance of the
shores.”--_N. Y. Sun._
The Great Lakes
By James Oliver Curwood
_With about 80 Illustrations. Probable price $3.50 net_
This profusely illustrated book, as entertaining as it is informing,
has the twofold advantage of being written by a man who knows the Lakes
and their shores as well as what has been written about them. The
general reader will enjoy the romance attaching to the past history
of the Lakes and not less the romance of the present--the story of
the great commercial fleets that plough our inland seas, created to
transport the fruits of the earth and the metals that are dug from the
bowels of the earth. To the business man who has interests in or about
the Lakes, or to the prospective investor in Great Lakes enterprises,
the book will be found suggestive. Comparatively little has been
written of these fresh-water seas, and many of his readers will be
amazed at the wonderful story which this volume tells.
The St. Lawrence River
_Historical--Legendary--Picturesque_
By George Waldo Browne
Author of “Japan--the Place and the People,” “Paradise of the Pacific,”
etc.
_385 pages, with 100 Illustrations and a Map. $3.50 net_
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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