Along Lake Michigan

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Shipwreck Stories of Life and Loss

Michael Schumacher

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English

University of Minnesota Press
03 December 2025

History of the Americas; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Local history

Notable shipwrecks of Lake Michigan throughout a century of enterprise, industry, heroism, and disaster on the Great Lakes

The Great Lakes are graveyards of a vast number of shipwrecks (30,000 by some estimates), and Lake Michigan has more than the other four lakes combined. The stories of those wrecks tell the history of that mighty lake in its endless, mercurial challenge to human endeavor.

Surveying the wreckage throughout the decades, from the fiery end of the twin propellerdriven Phoenix in 1847 to the failure of the Anna Minch to outrun the infamous 1940 Armistice Day storm, Michael Schumacher charts the course of shipping disasters great and small on Lake Michigan. He illuminates the details of maritime weather and shipcraft, the lives devoted to and lost on the water, and the mistakes and monumental failures that led to these ships' watery ends.

Schumacher's deft storytelling, drawing from deep research and comprehensive knowledge, brings forth the vivid details of the last minutes of these doomed ships, along with the circumstances surrounding their voyages. Here are tragic tales like that of the Eastland, the deadliest shipwreck in Great Lakes history, lost while docked in the Chicago River; the Rouse Simmons, a wooden schooner loaded with Christmas trees; the train ferry Milwaukee and the Wisconsin, a package freighter, gone within one week of each other in October 1929; and the passenger vessel the Lady Elgin, a devastating loss met with incredible heroism.

Liberally illustrated with historical photographs, the stories of these shipwrecks, spanning a full century of commercial traffic on Lake Michigan, document the myriad forms of bravery and misfortune that mark our encounters with the Great Lakes.

By: Michael Schumacher
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 284g
ISBN: 9781517916770
ISBN 10: 1517916771
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 03 December 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Contents Introduction Phoenix (1847) Niagara (1856) Lady Elgin (1860) Alpena (1880) Appomattox (1905) R. J. Hackett (1905) Pere Marquette 18 (1910) Rouse Simmons (1912) Eastland (1915) Milwaukee (1929) Wisconsin (1929) Henry Cort (1934) J. Oswald Boyd (1936) William A. Davock (1940) Notes Bibliography Illustration Credits

Michael Schumacher is the author of several books on Great Lakes shipwrecks, including Mighty Fitz, November's Fury, Torn in Two, and The Trial of the Edmund Fitzgerald (all from Minnesota). He has written narratives for twenty-five Great Lakes shipwreck and lighthouse documentary films. He lives in Wisconsin close to the shores of Lake Michigan.