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Title:

The Great Lakes reader / edited by Walter Havighurst.

Publisher:

Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

c1966

Description:

xvii, 421 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American literature.
Great Lakes (North America)
Littérature américaine--Anthologies.
Grands Lacs.

Other Authors:

Havighurst, Walter, 1901-

Contents:

Cities and seaway. Quebec to the sea / Henry Beston. Mission on Lake Superior / Claude Allouez -- Marquette's last journey / Claude Dablon -- Voyage of the Griffin / Louis Hennepin -- The golden age of the canoe / Henry Beston -- To the Big Sea Water / Henry Rowe Schoolcraft -- By cross and anchor / James K. Jamison -- The fortune hunters. The mineral veins / Douglass Houghton -- Horizon north / Bela Hubbard -- Death at Eagle River / Peter McFarland -- Land, luck and money / Angus Murdoch -- Copper fever / Charles Lanman -- The compass needle / William A. Burt and Jacob Houghton -- Finding the iron mountains / Philo Everett -- The stained rock / Raphael Pumpelly -- Landlooker / John M. Longyear -- The iron hills / Peter White -- Seven iron men / Paul de Kruif -- Wind from the west. With Perry at Put-in-Bay / Usher Parsons -- By steamer to the west, 1828 / H. Massey -- Immigrant boat to Detroit / Charles Fenno Hoffman -- Stowaway / Ralph Keeler -- Salmon Sweatland's funeral / Henry Howe -- By ice to Cross Village / Brand Whitlock -- Arrival at L'Arbre Croche / U.P. Hedrick -- The storied straits. Morning at Mackinac / Reuben Gold Thwaites -- The king's birthday / Alexander Henry -- To the westward / Kenneth Roberts -- The old agency / Constance Fenimore Woolson -- The skeleton on Round Island / Mary Hartwell Catherwood -- Bridging the straits / William Ratigan -- Unlocking the north. Ceremony at the Sault / Claude Dablon -- Tracks in the snow / Thomas Dawson -- Winter in the north / Helen Hardie Grant -- Woman of the Bright Foam / Anna Jameson -- The battle of the millrace / Janet Lewis -- Voyage of the Independence / Lewis Marvill -- Journey to the Soo / William Cullen Bryant -- Canalside superintendent / Ernest H. Rankin -- The Soo locks / Eber Ward -- The new lock, 1967 / E.B. Williams -- Storm warning. Great Lakes mariner / Herman Melville -- Gale on Lake Erie / Jacob Butler Varnum -- The short life of the Walk-in-the-Water / Mary A.W. Palmer -- Return of the Superior / Detroit Gazette -- Stormy passage / Henry Rowe Schoolcraft -- Rough weather, 1835 / J.B. Mansfield -- The Christmas tree schooner / Harry Hansen -- Grim November / Julius F. Wolff, Jr. -- The darkest day / Fred M. Landon -- Ordeal on Sunday / S.A. Lyons -- Ice-bound / Elmer Weborg -- The long ships. Windjammer to Chicago / Elizabeth T. Baird -- Sails / Harlan Hatcher -- The historic Onoko / J.B. Mansfield -- All in a lifetime / Ralph D. Williams -- The whaleback fleet / The graphic -- Parade on the river / Milo M. Quaife -- Towed from Baltimore / Robert H. Folkert -- The new carriers / E.B. Williams -- Cities and seaway. The four Welland canals / Rowland W. Murphy -- Sailing the seaway route / Carlton Mabee -- North to salt water / Jack C. Yewell -- Time and the river / Hugh MacLennan -- Quebec to the sea / Henry Beston.

LCCN:

66015024

Locations:

YSPD232 -- Camanche Public Library (Camanche)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OAAX516 -- Maharishi University of Management Library (Fairfield)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

VMPC334 -- West Union Community Library (West Union)