Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half-title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • List of Maps and Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Hewn from the Wilderness: Muskegonâ€?s Earliest Days
  • Trapper, Trader, Soldiers, Spy: The Visit by the HMS Felicity
  • 2. Lumber Days on Muskegonâ€?s Waterfront
  • €oeDreadful Enduranceâ€?: The Neptune and Other Early Shipwrecks of Muskegon A Tragic Homecoming: The Wreck of the Granada
  • Safe in the Sand: The Trial and the Annie Nelson
  • Semper Paratus: The Muskegon Lifesaving Crew and the Wreck of the R.B. King
  • €oeSo Terrible a Realityâ€?: The Wrecks of the South Haven, the Helen, and the L.J. Conway Legend and Mystery: The Fate of the Rouse Simmons and the Thomas Hume
  • â€oeFrenchman, he donâ€?t lak to dieâ€?: The Wreck of the Waukesha
  • The Charmed Life of the Lyman M. Davis
  • 3. Steamships and Car Ferries of Muskegon Sailing Blind: The Wreck of the Wabash Valley
  • Lost to the Depths: The Wreck of the Alpena
  • A Steamer for All Seasons: The Alabama
  • Up Against the Big Guns: The Charles H. Hackley
  • €oeCarelessness Becomes a Mortgage to Dangerâ€?: The Wreck of the Steam Barge Milwaukee Trials by Fire: The Naomi and the Nyack
  • â€oeThey Will Probably Send Me to Hellâ€?: The Wreck of the Muskegon
  • Adrift in Changing Times: The Story of the Illinois and the Missouri