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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
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