Contents

 

Preface

Introduction

Part I Early Times

 

1. Opening of the Northwest: A Maritime Perspective

by PHILIP R. ELMES

2. From Eschicagou to Chicago

by CHARLES J. BALESI

3. The Canoe Age

adapted from the Chicago Tribune of October 17, 1999

4. The Chicago Flood of 1849

by A.T. ANDREAS

5. The Des Plaines River, 1673– 1940

by HERMON DUNLAP SMITH

6. Summer on Our Lake of Many Colors

by MARGARET FULLER

Part II Inland Navigation on the Canal

 

7. The Illinois and Michigan Canal

by JOHN LAMB

8. Days of Old on the Canal

from the Chicago Tribune of May 21, 1899

9. Life on the Canal

by ELISHA SLY

10. A Letter to Ann

by WILLIAM GOODING

11. Trials and Tribulations on the Chicago River

by JUDGE J. DRUMMOND

Part III The Golden Age of Sail

 

12. Great Lakes Sailing Ships

by HENRY N. BARKHAUSEN

13. Wooden Shipbuilding in the Windy City, 1836–90

by RICHARD J. WRIGHT

14. The Port of Chicago in the 1880s

by PHILIP R. ELMES

15. The Chicago Harbor a Century Ago

by THEODORE S. CHARRNEY

16. Masters of the Inland Seas

by THEODORE J. KARAMANSKI

17. Captains and Crews: Management of Sailing Ships

by THEODORE J. KARAMANSKI

 

Part  lV Some Maritime Institutions

18. Captain Streeter’s District of Lake Michigan

by K.C. TESSENDORF

19. Maritime Music

by TOM and CHRIS KASTLE

20. A Steamboat Named Chicago

by JOHN HEINZ

21. The Rise of the Goodrich Line

by JAMES LEE ELLIOTT

22. The Decline of Lake Packets

by JAMES LEE ELLIOTT

Part  V Safety on the Seas

 

23. Grosse Point Light Station

by TERRY PEPPER

24. The Coast Guard in Chicago

by J.A. WALL

25. The Globe Explosion

by DAVID M. YOUNG

26. The Fleet Is In

by ROBERT A. FREEMAN

27. Fireboats in Action

by JOHN HEINZ

28. Investigating the Eastland Accident

by ANN D. GORDON

Part  Vl The Lakes at War

 

29. Aircraft Carriers on Lake Michigan

by DUANE ERNEST MILLER

30. The Navy’s Secret Hooligan Fleet: Stealth Yachts Against the U-Boats

by JUSTIN M. RUHGE

  

31. The Grebe Shipyard of Chicago

by JOHN HEINZ

32. The ABCs of Life in a Storm

by RICHARD BRADY

33. The Prairie Shipyard

by DAVID M. YOUNG

Epilogue