Background
Karamanski, Theodore John was born on August 1, 1953 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Theodore John and Gloria Maryln (Walberg) Karamanski.
( Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries...)
Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, schooner trade was a well-developed system of maritime transport for commodities such as grain, lumber, and iron. The schooner trade was as critical to the development of the Great Lakes region as covered wagons were to the Far West and paddle wheel steamers were to the South. Schooners sailed the Great Lakes in large numbers and played a formative role in the shaping of pioneer life throughout the region. The schooners that traveled the Lake Michigan basin succeeded in bringing a range of shoreline communities and four separate states into one coherent region. Although schooners successfully competed with steam vessels for more than a half-century, wooden sailing ships could not match the scale of the giant steel bulk carriers that began to emerge from shipyards in the twentieth century. The Mary A. Gregory-one of the last schooners left-was torched, sunk, and buried in Lake Michigan in 1926. Schooner Passage is a history of these magnificent sailing vessels and their role in maritime trade along Lake Michigan. Theodore J. Karamanski shares with the reader the stories of the men and women who sailed on the schooners, their labor issues and strikes, the role of the schooner in the maritime economy along the Lake Michigan basin, and the factors that led to the eventual demise of that economy in the early twentieth century. Karamanski has put together historical accounts from newspaper clippings, historical society archives, and government documents to provide one of the few available histories of schooners. Schooner Passage will interest scholars and students of Great Lakes and American history as well as the general reader interested in nineteenth-century western expansion.
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(In nineteenth-century North America the beaver was "brown...)
In nineteenth-century North America the beaver was "brown gold." It and other fur-bearing animals were the targets of an extractive industry like gold mining. Hoping to make their fortunes with the Hudson's Bay Company, young Scots and Englishmen left their homes in the British Isles for the Canadian frontier. In the Far Northwest -- northern British Columbia, the Yukon, the western Northwest Territories, and eastern Alaska -- they collaborated with Indians and French Canadians to send back as many pelts as possible in return for an allotment of trade goods.
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( In Deep Woods Frontier, Theodore J. Karamanski examines...)
In Deep Woods Frontier, Theodore J. Karamanski examines the interplay between men and technology in the lumbering of Michigan's rugged Upper Peninsula. Three distinct periods emerged as the industry evolved. The pine era was a rough pioneering time when trees were felled by axe and floated to ports where logs were loaded on schooners for shipment to large cities. When the bulk of the pine forests had been cut, other entrepreneurs saw opportunity in the unexploited stands of maple and birch and harnessed the railroad to transport logs. Finally, in the pulpwood era, "weed trees," despised by previous loggers, are cut by chain saw, and moved by skidder and truck. Narrating the history of Michigan's forest industry, Karamanski provides a dynamic study of an important part of the Upper Peninsula's economy.
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Karamanski, Theodore John was born on August 1, 1953 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Theodore John and Gloria Maryln (Walberg) Karamanski.
Student, S.W. College, Chicago, 1971-1972; Bachelor with honors, Loyola University, Chicago, 1972-1975; Doctor of Philosophy, Loyola University, Chicago, 1975-1980.
Public historian, Fisher-Stein Associations, Carbordale, Illinois, 1978-1979; assistant professor of history, Loyola University, 1979-1984; associate professor, Loyola University, since 1984; director, Mid-American Research Center, Chicago, since 1979. Board directors Program in Public History Loyola University, since 1982.
( Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries...)
( In Deep Woods Frontier, Theodore J. Karamanski examines...)
(In nineteenth-century North America the beaver was "brown...)
Member interpretation committee Illinois and Michigan Canal Cooridor, Joliet, Illinois, since 1987. Board directors Chicago Maritime Society, since 1984. Member National Council on Public History (treasurer 1985-1986, vice chairman 1988-1989, president 1989-1990), American Association State and Local History.
Married Eileen M. McMahon, January 12, 1985.