MICHIANA HISTORY PUBLICATIONS
HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL MATERIALS ON:
ILLINOIS-INDIANA-MICHIGAN-OHIO AND SELECTED OTHER STATES
Great Lakes
Dutton, Fred W. Life on the Great Lakes. A Wheelsman's Story. Wayne State University and the Great Lakes Historical Society. Detroit. 1991. 173 pages. Softcover.
Tells of the time before the gyro when ships were steered by magnetic compass and men had to estimate the degree of error in navigational calculations.
Price: $14.95
Lanman, Charles. A Canoe Voyage Up the Mississippi and Around Lake Superior in 1846. Black Letter Press. Grand Rapids, Michigan. 1978. 208 pages. Softcover.
Shipping Literature of the Great Lakes. A Catalog of Company Publications. 1852 - 1990. Compiled by Le Roy Barnett. Michigan State University Press. East Lansing. 1992. 165 pages. Hardcover.
During the last century and a half, the Great Lakes shipping companies have printed a substantial amount of materials relating to the operations. Unfortunately, the information is scattered through out the entire country. This book attempts to compile a listing of materials and their locations.
Price: $25.00
Sweetwater, Storms and Spirits. Stories of the Great Lakes. Selected and Edited by Victoria Brehm. University of Michigan Press. Ann Arbor. First paperback edition. 1991. 340 pages. Softcover.
A collection of Indian legends, shipping tales, folklore, and myths spanning the last 150 years are gathered together for the first time in this collection.
Price: $14.95
Great Lakes - Shipwrecks
Heden, Karl E. The Great Lakes Guide to Sunken Ships. Branden Books. Boston. 1993. 304 pages. Softcover.
Arranged alphabetically by name of ship. Provides tonnage, date of loss, and location of loss.
Price: $19.95
Parker, Jack Shipwrecks of Lake Huron. The Great Sweetwater Sea. Including Micigan-Huron-Mackinac Straits Area. Avery Color Studios. Au Train, Michigan. 1986. 183 pages. Softcover.
Features , in separate sections, over 1,100 shipwrecks, alphabetized and located in five separate sections, plus 35 historical photographs.
Price: $7.50
Ratigan, William. Great Lakes Shipwrecks and Survivals.. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. 1
st printing 1960. 298 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket has small section cut off at top inside flap.Tells the story of the most spectacular shipwrecks and of the most incredible survivals in the history of the Great Lakes including the holiday morning when the palatial excursion liner Eastland capsized at her pier in the Chicago River and 835 people drowned, the below-zero night in snow bound Duluth when an entire city scraped frost from its hillside windows to look out in horrified fascination at the storm swept harbor where the crew of the ship-wrecked steel freighter Mataafa were freezing to death; the dark Sunday in November of 1913 when Lake Huron swallowed eight long ships without a man surviving to tell the tale, etc.
Price: $30.00
Stonehouse, Frederick. Keweenaw Shipwrecks. A Survey of Maritime Accidents From Big Bay Point, West to Ontonagon, with Emphasis on the Keweenaw Peninsula. Avery Color Studios. Au Train, Michigan. First Edition August 1988. 362 pages. Softcover.
A comprehensive documentation of the ships lost off Keweenaw Peninsula. Looks into the life of the lighthouse keepers as they struggled to keep the ships off the rocks.
Price: $14.50
Stonehouse, Frederick. Marquette Shipwrecks. Thrilling tales of the Maritime Disasters of Lake Superior's Greatest Port City. Harboridge Press. Marquette. 1974. 100 pages. Softcover.
Some markings on front and back covers. Also, notation "M. W. McGowan 10-11-75".
Price: $6.00
Stonehouse, Frederick. Went Missing, II. An expanded edition of the original text done in 1977 to now include shipwrecks from all the Great Lakes. Avery Color Studios. Au Train, Michigan. First edition. June 1984. 222 pages. Softcover.
This is not an attempt to include all ships that disappeared. It is limited to vessels that were lost with all hands for an unknown reason and whose actual sinking was unobserved.
Price: $7.50