Steamboats in Ice

Great Lakes historian James L. Donahue proves once again that real-life stories about events in the past can be both exciting and fun to read. Steamboats In Ice is a careful historical record of storms, explosions, fires, collisions and other dramatic happenings on and around the Great Lakes during he year 1872.

Take a strange week-long voyage through an enchanted field of ice on the steamer Lawrence.

Trudge on snow shoes with hundreds of stranded sailors across the frozen north woods of Michigan after a fleet of vessels found themselves locked in the ice at Sault Ste. Marie.

Experience the drama aboard the sinking steamer Lac La Belle as sailors and passengers first try to save their ship, and finally themselves in the midst of a fierce Lake Michigan gale.