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Niagara Falls Schooner Michigan and the Spectacle of Loss
Eyewitness account of the 1828 Niagara flirtation with danger as the schooner Michigan tested fate near the cataract. Crowds gathered at Yale's Landing as Captain Rough struggled to tow the vessel, mutiny, and the shipbreaker event ended in splinters with bears geese foxes and a buffalo aboard and then lost to the rapids.
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Niagara Falls
Michigan
Lake Erie
Major Frazer
Buffalo
Henry Clay
William Fenn
Pioneer
Niagara
Niagara River
Yale
Canada
William Penn
Rougl
Carrie
Grass Island
The
Lake Superior
Canada Shore