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Author : Jean Dulieu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (66 download)
Download or read book Paulus and the Acornmen written by Jean Dulieu and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ellis Clarence Mace
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book River Steamboats and Steamboat Men written by Ellis Clarence Mace and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : C. R. Roseberry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (66 download)
Download or read book Steamboats and Steamboat Men written by C. R. Roseberry and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Byron Merrick
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3954274515
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (542 download)
Download or read book Old Times on the Upper Mississippi written by George Byron Merrick and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2015-01-19 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was life like on the Mississippi in the good old days? What were the challenges? How was navigation done? Which ships were on the river? These questions and many more are answered by the recollecions of a famous steam boat pilot, George Merrick. This book was first published in 1909.
Author : Harry P. Owens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Steamboats and the Cotton Economy written by Harry P. Owens and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first book to make a detailed exploration of the system of riverboat traffic of the Delta region, "Steamboats and the Cotton Economy" is also the first balanced study showing how steamboats in the early years of the republic performed essentially the same role that railroads would later perform in revolutionizing the interior of the nation. Today, the mention of steamboats conjures up romantic visions of cotton landings and mythological river traders. Some of the steamboats plying the Mississippi-Yazoo Delta waterways give form to the myth. Others call forth the true work-a-day world of steamers loaded with passengers, freight, and sacks of cotton seed. Such ubiquitous trade boats, cotton, gin boats, sawmills boats, as well as ice and mail boats, not only helped to build the Cotton Kingdom but also added rich texture and color to the history of the Delta. In discovering the role of steamboats in the everyday life of the Mississippi Delta, this book reveals the vital economic
Author : Mark L. Thompson
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814338356
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)
Download or read book Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes written by Mark L. Thompson and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakestraces the evolution of the Great Lakes shipping industry over the last three centuries. The Great Lakes shipping industry can trace its lineage to 1679 with the launching on Lake Erie of the Griffon, a sixty-foot galley weighing nearly fifty tons. Built by LaSalle, a French explorer who had been commissioned to search for a passage through North America to China, it was the first sailing ship to operate on the upper lakes, signaling the dawn of the Great Lakes shipping industry as we know it today. Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes is the most thorough and factual study of the Great Lakes shipping industry written this century. Author Mark L. Thompson tells the fascinating story of the world's most efficient bulk transportation system, describing the Great Lakes freighters, the cargoes of the great ships ,and the men and women who have served as crew. He documents the dramatic changes that have taken places in the industry and looks at the critical role that Great Lakes shipping plays in the economic well-being of the U.S. and Canada, despite the fact tat the size of the fleet and the amount of cargo carried have declined dramatically in recent years. Spanning more than three centuries, from LaSalle's voyage in 1679, through 1975 with the mysterious sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, to life aboard today's thousand-foot behemoths, this important volume documents the evolution of the industry through its "Golden Age" at the end of the nineteenth century to the present, with a downsized U.S. fleet that numbers fewer than seventy vessels.
Author : Charles M. Scott (river pilot.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (444 download)
Download or read book To the Steamboat Men of St. Louis written by Charles M. Scott (river pilot.) and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cecil R. Roseberry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Steamboats and Steamboat Men written by Cecil R. Roseberry and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Twain
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Old Times on the Mississippi written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Edward Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Old Man River written by Charles Edward Brown and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Louis C. Hunter
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486157784
Total Pages : 721 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)
Download or read book Steamboats on the Western Rivers written by Louis C. Hunter and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richly detailed definitive account covers every aspect of steamboat's development — from construction, equipment, and operation to races, collisions, rise of competition, and ultimate decline of steamboat transportation.
Author : Charles M. Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (72 download)
Download or read book To the Steamboat Men of St. Louis written by Charles M. Scott and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Byron Merrick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781332811175
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (111 download)
Download or read book Old Times on the Upper Mississippi written by George Byron Merrick and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Old Times on the Upper Mississippi: The Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot From 1854 to 1863 To most men of our day, the life of those who manned the steamers of that once mighty fleet is legendary, almost mythical. Its story is unwritten. To the few participants who yet remain, it is but a memory. The boats themselves have disappeared, leaving no token. The masters and the mates, the pilots and the clerks, the engineers and the men of humbler station have likewise gone. Of the thousands who contributed to give life and direction to the vessels themselves, a meager score of short biographies is all that history vouchsafes. The aim of the present volume is to tell something of these men, and of the boats that they made sentient by their knowledge and power; to relate something of the incidents of river life as seen by a boy during eight years of residence by the riverside, or in active service on the river itself. While it may not literally be claimed, All of which I saw, it is with satisfaction, not unmixed with pride, that the writer can truthfully assert, A part of which I was. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Joan W. Gandy
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 048614206X
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)
Download or read book The Mississippi Steamboat Era in Historic Photographs written by Joan W. Gandy and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIV170 rare and valuable photographs of Mississippi River and its vessels: major steamboats, luxurious interiors, passenger portraits, cargoes, mail boats, capsized ships, much more. Informative text. /div
Author : S.L. Kotar
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786456973
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book The Steamboat Era written by S.L. Kotar and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-12-21 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The steamboat evokes images of leisurely travel, genteel gambling, and lively commerce, but behind the romanticized view is an engineering marvel that led the way for the steam locomotive. From the steamboat's development by Robert Fulton to the dawn of the Civil War, the new mode of transportation opened up America's frontiers and created new trade routes and economic centers. Firsthand accounts of steamboat accidents, races, business records and river improvements are collected here to reveal the culture and economy of the early to mid-1800s, as well as the daily routines of crew and passengers. A glossary of steamboat terms and a collection of contemporary accounts of accidents round out this history of the riverboat era.
Author : Steven Harvey
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (128 download)
Download or read book Life of a Steamboat Man written by Steven Harvey and published by . This book was released on with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the life of steamboat captain, Allen Wood and walks us through the golden age of steamboats that Allen would have been immersed in
Author : Robert H. Gudmestad
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807138428
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom written by Robert H. Gudmestad and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The arrival of the first steamboat, The New Orleans, in early 1812 touched off an economic revolution in the South. In states west of the Appalachian Mountains, the operation of steamboats quickly grew into a booming business that would lead to new cultural practices and a stronger sectional identity. In Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom, Robert Gudmestad examines the wide-ranging influence of steamboats on the southern economy. From carrying cash crops to market to contributing to slave productivity, increasing the flexibility of labor, and connecting southerners to overlapping orbits of regional, national, and international markets, steamboats not only benefited slaveholders and northern industries but also affected cotton production. This technology literally put people into motion, and travelers developed an array of unique cultural practices, from gambling to boat races. Gudmestad also asserts that the intersection of these riverboats and the environment reveals much about sectional identity in antebellum America. As federal funds backed railroad construction instead of efforts to clear waterways for steamboats, southerners looked to coordinate their own economic development, free of national interests. Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom offers new insights into the remarkable and significant history of transportation and commerce in the prewar South.
