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"YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN US HOWLING: When Buffalo Ruled the Inland Seas"
by Jeff Z. Klein and Scott Alexander Wood
Once a teeming Great Lakes port famed for its ships and reviled for its dockside brothels and bars, Buffalo was the brawling crossroads of nineteenth-century America, a maritime city where the Erie Canal ended and the open water began, with a rich legacy of gales, songs, yarns, shipwrecks and lives saved and lost on the lakes’ treacherous, storm-tossed waters. Buffalo was a harbor town so big and infamous that it became a byword for the raucous nautical life of its itinerant sailors; Steelkilt, Melville’s swashbuckling mutineer in Moby-Dick, was a Buffalonian, and even the famous sea chantey “Blow Ye Winds,” which begins…
Tis advertised in Boston, New York and Buffalo
Five hundred brave Americans, a-whaling for to go
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