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Lake Michigan Passenger Steamers. By George W. Hilton. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 364, $75.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2003

Diane Lindstrom
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Extract

The author, a retired UCLA economist, has written a number of highly specialized transportation studies. In his Lake Michigan Passenger Steamers much as in his Great Lakes Car Ferries and American Narrow Gauge Railroads, George W. Hinton acknowledges that “the principle purpose is to provide antiquarian scholarship” (p. xi). Here we learn about the wooden and steel, sailing and steam ships that operated on Lake Michigan from the early nineteenth century until well into the twentieth century. Although some attention is devoted to the interlake trade, the passenger lines that draw most of the author's attention are those that served Lake Michigan points exclusively.

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© 2003 The Economic History Association

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