Great Ships on the Great Lakes: A Maritime History

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Contents 1 What Is Maritime History 1 2 Lakes Rivers and Ice 2 People Tell Stories about Great Floods 6 The Great Lakes under Water 7 The Great Lakes under Ice 8 Melting Glaciers Create Lakes 9 Great Lakes Shorelines 10 Wetlands 12 Rivers and Their Watersheds 14 3 Paddles and Pelts 16 Native People of the Great Lakes 16 Dugout Canoes 18 Birchbark Canoes 19 Europeans Travel the Great Lakes 21 The Canoes of the French Fur Traders 23 The Mysterious Disappearance of the Griffon 26 Exploration Not Settlement 28 4 Fighting for the Inland Seas 30 Europeans Build Forts 30 The French and Indian War 33 How Did the Revolutionary War Affect the Great Lakes 34 Pioneering Spirit 36