 The Georgie Oakes, circa 1910. After winning the steamboat race with the Harrison, she was the First Lady of the lake for thirty years. End of the Georgie Oakes: "The Georgie Oakes made daily runs until 1917 when the Miss Spokane was built; then until 1920 she was used only intermittently. As part of the Fourth-of-July celebration in 1927 she was burned on the Coeur d'Alene water front. Lumps rose in many throats as flames ate at the vessel. As an ore hauler, freight hauler, passenger boat, excursion steamer, she was a symbol of history on Lake Coeur d'Alene; to see her destroyed was to see the old days pass, never to be recaptured" (pp. 186-187). Click here for next photo. 
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