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Author : Dorsey, Florence L.
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781455608607
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Master of the Mississippi written by Dorsey, Florence L. and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1941 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Florence L Dorsey
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781013890000
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Master of the Mississippi; Henry Shreve and the Conquest of the Mississippi written by Florence L Dorsey and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Florence L. Dorsey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Master of the Mississippi written by Florence L. Dorsey and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master of the Mississippi is the story of Henry Miller Shreve, who taught the Mississippi River to fetch and carry for the nation. The book is compiled from letters written by Shreve, journals kept by his father and brother, and letters written by members of the Shreve family. It also includes records and descriptions of journeys into the Mississippi, Ohio, and Red River countries, as well as histories of various sections and time periods of the Mississippi Valley.
Author : Christine A Klein
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479856169
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)
Download or read book Mississippi River Tragedies written by Christine A Klein and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read a free excerpt here! American engineers have done astounding things to bend the Mississippi River to their will: forcing one of its tributaries to flow uphill, transforming over a thousand miles of roiling currents into a placid staircase of water, and wresting the lower half of the river apart from its floodplain. American law has aided and abetted these feats. But despite our best efforts, so-called “natural disasters” continue to strike the Mississippi basin, as raging floodwaters decimate waterfront communities and abandoned towns literally crumble into the Gulf of Mexico. In some places, only the tombstones remain, leaning at odd angles as the underlying soil erodes away. Mississippi River Tragedies reveals that it is seductively deceptive—but horribly misleading—to call such catastrophes “natural.” Authors Christine A. Klein and Sandra B. Zellmer present a sympathetic account of the human dreams, pride, and foibles that got us to this point, weaving together engaging historical narratives and accessible law stories drawn from actual courtroom dramas. The authors deftly uncover the larger story of how the law reflects and even amplifies our ambivalent attitude toward nature—simultaneously revering wild rivers and places for what they are, while working feverishly to change them into something else. Despite their sobering revelations, the authors’ final message is one of hope. Although the acknowledgement of human responsibility for unnatural disasters can lead to blame, guilt, and liability, it can also prod us to confront the consequences of our actions, leading to a liberating sense of possibility and to the knowledge necessary to avoid future disasters.
Author : Alex Roland
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470136006
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Way of the Ship written by Alex Roland and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Way of the Ship offers a global perspective and considers both oceanic shipping and domestics shipping along America's coasts and inland waterways, with explanations of the forces that influenced the way of the ship. The result is an eye-opening, authoritative look at American maritime history and the ways it helped shape the nation's history."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Raymond H. Merritt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book The Corps, the Environment, and the Upper Mississippi River Basin written by Raymond H. Merritt and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ralph K. Andrist
Publisher : New Word City
ISBN 13 : 1612309496
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (123 download)
Download or read book Life on the Mississippi written by Ralph K. Andrist and published by New Word City. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To most people, thanks to Mark Twain, "Mississippi" suggests riverboat. Here, from award-winning historian Ralph K. Andrist, is the dramatic story of the great, Mississippi steam paddle-wheelers and the world through which they moved - a world these revolutionary ships and their captains, crews, and creators were largely responsible for bringing into being.
Author : Mary Helen Dohan
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781455609062
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Mr. Roosevelt's Steamboat written by Mary Helen Dohan and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2004-07-31 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of a family’s daring four-month Mississippi River journey—a tale of danger, childbirth, and a massive earthquake that “reads like a novel” (Publishers Weekly). In 1811, the steamboat New Orleans was the first to travel the Mississippi River in a four-month journey between Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and New Orleans, Louisiana. The only people brave enough to embark upon the journey were Nicholas Roosevelt; his pregnant wife, Lydia Latrobe; and their young daughter. During the course of the trip, the brilliant but reckless Roosevelt led his family through navigational perils, hostile Indians, and fire aboard. The small, fire-engine-powered steamboat saw not only the birth of Roosevelt and Latrobe’s second child, but also the greatest earthquake ever to strike the eastern United States. That cataclysmic event, described in the book from firsthand accounts, destroyed villages, swallowed islands, and reversed the course of the Mississippi River. Mr. Roosevelt’s Steamboat is an authoritative account of a twenty-five-hundred-mile voyage that significantly contributed to America’s transportation revolution. The dynamic main characters share tender romance and great courage. Their incredible trip down the Mississippi assured the future of steam navigation—and the progress of the great westward movement. “A vivid, fast-moving story.” —New Orleans Times-Picayune “In a class by itself . . . Surges with excitement.” —Louisiana History “Well-researched, vividly told.” —Waterways Journal “Intriguing romance, [a] taut, suspense-filled story, cataclysmic drama . . . A whale of a book.” —Christian Herald
Author : Roald D. Tweet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book A History of the Rock Island District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1866-1983 written by Roald D. Tweet and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brian McGinty
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 087140785X
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (714 download)
Download or read book Lincoln's Greatest Case: The River, the Bridge, and the Making of America written by Brian McGinty and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-02-09 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold story of how one sensational trial propelled a self-taught lawyer and a future president into the national spotlight. In May of 1856, the steamboat Effie Afton barreled into a pillar of the Rock Island Bridge, unalterably changing the course of American transportation history. Within a year, long-simmering tensions between powerful steamboat interests and burgeoning railroads exploded, and the nation’s attention, absorbed by the Dred Scott case, was riveted by a new civil trial. Dramatically reenacting the Effie Afton case—from its unlikely inception, complete with a young Abraham Lincoln’s soaring oratory, to the controversial finale—this “masterful” (Christian Science Monitor) account gives us the previously untold story of how one sensational trial propelled a self-taught lawyer and a future president into the national spotlight.
Author : Mary Yeater Rathbun
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Castle on the Rock, 1881-1985 written by Mary Yeater Rathbun and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roald D. Tweet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A History of the Rock Island District, Corps of Engineers written by Roald D. Tweet and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Todd Shallat
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292785887
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Structures in the Stream written by Todd Shallat and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Mississippi and other midwestern rivers inundated town after town during the summer of 1993, concerned and angry citizens questioned whether the very technologies and structures intended to "tame" the rivers did not, in fact, increase the severity of the floods. Much of the controversy swirled around the apparent culpability of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the builder of many of the flood control systems that failed. In this book, Todd Shallat examines the turbulent first century of the dam and canal building Corps and follows the agency's rise from European antecedents through the boom years of river development after the American Civil War. Combining extensive research with a lively style, Shallat tells the story of monumental construction and engineering fiascoes, public service and public corruption, and the rise of science and the army expert as agents of the state. More than an institutional history, Structures in the Stream offers significant insights into American society, which has alternately supported the public works projects that are a legacy of our French heritage and opposed them based on the democratic, individualist tradition inherited from Britain. It will be important reading for a wide audience in environmental, military, and scientific history, policy studies, and American cultural history.
Author : Leland R. Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Men, Mountains, and Rivers written by Leland R. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Allen C. Guelzo
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101912227
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Robert E. Lee written by Allen C. Guelzo and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • From the award-winning historian and best-selling author of Gettysburg comes the definitive biography of Robert E. Lee. An intimate look at the Confederate general in all his complexity—his hypocrisy and courage, his inner turmoil and outward calm, his disloyalty and his honor. "An important contribution to reconciling the myths with the facts." —New York Times Book Review Robert E. Lee is one of the most confounding figures in American history. Lee betrayed his nation in order to defend his home state and uphold the slave system he claimed to oppose. He was a traitor to the country he swore to serve as an Army officer, and yet he was admired even by his enemies for his composure and leadership. He considered slavery immoral, but benefited from inherited slaves and fought to defend the institution. And behind his genteel demeanor and perfectionism lurked the insecurities of a man haunted by the legacy of a father who stained the family name by declaring bankruptcy and who disappeared when Robert was just six years old. In Robert E. Lee, the award-winning historian Allen Guelzo has written the definitive biography of the general, following him from his refined upbringing in Virginia high society, to his long career in the U.S. Army, his agonized decision to side with Virginia when it seceded from the Union, and his leadership during the Civil War. Above all, Guelzo captures Robert E. Lee in all his complexity--his hypocrisy and courage, his outward calm and inner turmoil, his honor and his disloyalty.
Author : Heinz-D. Fischer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110961326
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Chronicle of the Pulitzer Prizes for Biography written by Heinz-D. Fischer and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 20 of the series describes the development of the award for Biographies and Autobiographies from 1917 through 2006. In addition, the complete jury reports from this period are reprinted by facsimile. So it can be documented how the annual deliberations went until a winner was selected. Among the prize-winners were John F. Kennedy before his presidency, the diplomat George F. Kennan or the aviator Charles Lindbergh.
Author : Leland R. Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Engineers on the Twin Rivers written by Leland R. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
