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Lake Michigan Passenger Steamers

By George W. Hilton

(Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 364. Maps, notes, illustrations, tables, appendices, index. $75.00.)

With this book George W. Hilton has created another detailed analysis of a portion of the history and technology of the Great Lakes transportation industry. One of his earliest books, The Great Lakes Car Ferries (1962), took a detailed look at every aspect of that service, and is today recognized as the definitive work on the subject. In the same vein, he wrote The Night Boat (1968), about overnight passenger steamer service. Lake Michigan Passenger Steamers provides a close look at the boats that for a century provided passenger and package-freight service across the lake. Hilton notes in the present work that the first letter he received after the car-ferry book appeared was from Edward N. Middleton. This is perhaps fitting, since over the two decades that Middleton worked in maritime history it was his dream to see published a book on Lake Michi-gan passenger steamers.

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