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Mr. Roosevelt's Steamboat

Author : Mary Helen Dohan
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781455609062
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (9 download)

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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

Mr. Roosevelt's Steamboat

Author : Mary Helen Dohan
Publisher : Dodd Mead
ISBN 13 : 9780396079835
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Mr. Roosevelt's Steamboat written by Mary Helen Dohan and published by Dodd Mead. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents the 1811 voyage of the first steamboat to travel from Pittsburgh to New Orleans, describing the Roosevelts' experiences with the wilderness, navigational perils, Indians, a devastating earthquake, and more

A Lost Chapter in the History of the Steamboat

Author : John Hazlehurst Boneval Latrobe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Lost Chapter in the History of the Steamboat written by John Hazlehurst Boneval Latrobe and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Lost Chapter in the History of the Steamboat; The Maryland Historical Society, 1844

Author : John H. B. Latrobe
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 338708899X
Total Pages : 57 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book A Lost Chapter in the History of the Steamboat; The Maryland Historical Society, 1844 written by John H. B. Latrobe and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-10-02 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

First Steamboat Down the Mississippi

Author : George Fichter
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781455604289
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book First Steamboat Down the Mississippi written by George Fichter and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1989-03-31 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come aboard the steamboat New Orleans, and experience the real-life adventure of the first steamboat trip down the mighty Mississippi through the eyes of a young crewmember. Tim Collins is a fourteen-year-old orphan trying to get from Pittsburgh to Natchez in the year 1811. He signs on as a deckhand aboard the New Orleans, and meets Nicholas Roo-sevelt, the dynamic builder and owner of the vessel, and his wife Lydia, who braves the untamed river while pregnant. Defying the ridicule of critics who claim that no vessel can defy the current of the mighty Mississippi, the voy-agers set off on their epic journey. They face crafty river pirates, hostile Indians, and wild animals. And can even a steamboat survive the awesome power of the New Madrid earth-quake, the strongest quake in American history?

The Life of Robert Fulton and a History of Steam Navigation

Author : Thomas Wallace Knox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of Robert Fulton and a History of Steam Navigation written by Thomas Wallace Knox and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Following the Frontier

Author : William Lewis Nida
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Following the Frontier written by William Lewis Nida and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Historical Dictionary of the U.S. Maritime Industry

Author : Kenneth J. Blume
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810856344
Total Pages : 613 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Book Synopsis Historical Dictionary of the U.S. Maritime Industry by : Kenneth J. Blume

Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the U.S. Maritime Industry written by Kenneth J. Blume and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Historical Dictionary of the U.S. Maritime Industry, author Kenneth J. Blume provides a convenient survey of this important industry from the colonial period to the present day: from sail to steam to nuclear power. This concise new reference work captures the key features of overseas, coastal, lake, and river shipping and industry. An introduction provides an overview of the industry while the dictionary itself contains more than four hundred cross-referenced entries on ships, shipping companies, famous personalities, and major ports. A number of appendixes, including statistics on foreign trade, maritime disasters, famous ships, and major ports, supplement the dictionary, and a comprehensive bibliography leads the researcher to further sources.

Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Mississippi

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1326 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Mississippi written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 1326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gibbons v. Ogden, Law, and Society in the Early Republic

Author : Thomas H. Cox
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 082144333X
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Gibbons v. Ogden, Law, and Society in the Early Republic written by Thomas H. Cox and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gibbons v. Ogden, Law, and Society in the Early Republic examines a landmark decision in American jurisprudence, the first Supreme Court case to deal with the thorny legal issue of interstate commerce. Decided in 1824, Gibbons v. Ogden arose out of litigation between owners of rival steamboat lines over passenger and freight routes between the neighboring states of New York and New Jersey. But what began as a local dispute over the right to ferry the paying public from the New Jersey shore to New York City soon found its way into John Marshall’s court and constitutional history. The case is consistently ranked as one of the twenty most significant Supreme Court decisions and is still taught in constitutional law courses, cited in state and federal cases, and quoted in articles on constitutional, business, and technological history. Gibbons v. Ogden initially attracted enormous public attention because it involved the development of a new and sensational form of technology. To early Americans, steamboats were floating symbols of progress—cheaper and quicker transportation that could bring goods to market and refinement to the backcountry. A product of the rough-and-tumble world of nascent capitalism and legal innovation, the case became a landmark decision that established the supremacy of federal regulation of interstate trade, curtailed states’ rights, and promoted a national market economy. The case has been invoked by prohibitionists, New Dealers, civil rights activists, and social conservatives alike in debates over federal regulation of issues ranging from labor standards to gun control. This lively study fills in the social and political context in which the case was decided—the colorful and fascinating personalities, the entrepreneurial spirit of the early republic, and the technological breakthroughs that brought modernity to the masses.

Remembering Pittsburgh

Author : Len Barcousky
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614232725
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Remembering Pittsburgh written by Len Barcousky and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07-16 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The doomed Whiskey Rebellion, the Great Fire that destroyed a third of the city in 1845 and Lincoln's speech urging residents to shun talk of secession--all have made the pages of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and its predecessors. Since 1786, the paper has covered local events, and reporter Len Barcousky is a part of this long tradition. This collection of his "Eyewitness" columns draws on next-day stories to tell the history of the city, from President Coolidge's almost-silent visit in 1927 to a report on the first woman hanged in Allegheny County. Join Barcousky as he vividly recounts the compelling history of the Steel City.

Follow the Stars Home

Author : Diane C. McPhail
Publisher : A John Scognamiglio Book
ISBN 13 : 1496750888
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (967 download)

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Download or read book Follow the Stars Home written by Diane C. McPhail and published by A John Scognamiglio Book. This book was released on 2024-08-20 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating reimagining of the intrepid woman who – 8 months pregnant and with a toddler in tow – braved violent earthquakes and treacherous waters on the first steamboat voyage to conquer the Mississippi River and redefine America. The acclaimed author of The Seamstress of New Orleans brings to life Lydia Latrobe Roosevelt’s defiant journey of 1811 in this lush, evocative biographical novel for fans of Paula McLain, Gill Paul, Allison Pataki, and stories about extraordinary yet little-known female adventurers… It’s a journey that most deem an insane impossibility. Yet on October 20th, 1811, Lydia Latrobe Roosevelt—daughter of one of the architects of the United States Capitol—fearlessly boards the steamship New Orleans in Pittsburgh. Eight months pregnant and with a toddler in tow, Lydia is fiercely independent despite her youth. She’s also accustomed to defying convention. Against her father’s wishes, she married his much older business colleague, inventor Nicholas Roosevelt—builder of the New Orleans—and spent her honeymoon on a primitive flatboat. But the stakes for this trip are infinitely higher. If Nicholas’s untried steamboat reaches New Orleans, it will serve as a profitable packet ship between that city and Natchez, proving the power of steam as it travels up and down the Mississippi. Success in this venture would revolutionize travel and trade, open the west to expansion, and secure the Roosevelts’ future. Lydia had used her own architectural training to design the flatboat’s interior, including a bedroom, sitting area, and fireplace. The steamship, however, dwarfs the canoes and flatboats on the river. And no amount of power or comfort could shield its passengers from risk. Lydia believes herself ready for all the dangers ahead—growing unrest among native people, disease or injury, and the turbulent Falls of the Ohio, a sixty-foot drop long believed impassable in such a large boat. But there are other challenges in store, impossible to predict as Lydia boards that fall day. Challenges which—if survived—will haunt and transform her, as surely as the journey will alter the course of a nation . . .

Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Mississippi

Author : Goodspeed's
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781455601196
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Mississippi written by Goodspeed's and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embracing an authentic and comprehensive account of the chief events in the history of the state, this newly republished double volume collection provides a record of the lives of many of the most worthy and illustrious families and individuals of Mississippi. Part 1, containing chapters one through fifteen, explores everything from postbellum organization to the records of families and individuals, including several citizens' private memoirs. This section provides much of the historical information from the legal and judicial history, political, educational, and religious history.

The Mississippi River

Author : Claire O'Neal
Publisher : Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1612283691
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book The Mississippi River written by Claire O'Neal and published by Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America’s Mighty Mississippi winds 2,340 miles (3,779 kilometers) from its headwaters in Minnesota down to its delta in New Orleans. Stretching to over a mile wide and over 45 feet deep as it dumps into the Gulf of Mexico, the Mississippi drains the rainwater from the Appalachians to the Rockies and everywhere in between, making it the third–largest river basin in the world. The Big Muddy’s silty waters leave behind rich and fertile soil that first fueled America’s westward expansion and today supplies the world. As American settlers conquered its waters, national centers of trade and culture, such as Minneapolis, St. Louis, Memphis, and New Orleans, flourished on the Mississippi’s banks. But today Old Man River threatens to remind us who’s in charge. Pollution and floods threaten the many millions who call the Mississippi River Basin home. Can we learn to live in harmony with America’s Father of Waters?

Mississippi, as a Province, Territory, and State

Author : John Francis Hamtramck Claiborne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Mississippi, as a Province, Territory, and State written by John Francis Hamtramck Claiborne and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Archways Level 10

Author : Margaret Early
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
ISBN 13 : 9780153305108
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Archways Level 10 written by Margaret Early and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P. This book was released on 1987 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Complex and Singular Person

Author : Mary Helen Dohan
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 151447347X
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book A Complex and Singular Person written by Mary Helen Dohan and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-03-30 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains a selection of Mary Helens shorter writings, some published but many unpublished, which provide a window into her thoughts and ideas, her successes and frustrations, and her own and her familys history. Taken together, they paint a vivid portrait of this complex and singular person.