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Book Synopsis Steamboats on the Western Rivers by : Louis C. Hunter
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.
Book Synopsis Steamboats on the Western Rivers by : Louis C. Hunter
Download or read book Steamboats on the Western Rivers written by Louis C. Hunter and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Steamboats on the Western Rivers by : Louis C. Hunter
Download or read book Steamboats on the Western Rivers written by Louis C. Hunter and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Lloyd's Steamboat Directory, and Disasters on the Western Waters by : James T. Lloyd
Download or read book Lloyd's Steamboat Directory, and Disasters on the Western Waters written by James T. Lloyd and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The First Steamboat Voyage on the Western Waters by : John Hazlehurst Boneval Latrobe
Download or read book The First Steamboat Voyage on the Western Waters written by John Hazlehurst Boneval Latrobe and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories heard as child by author, backed up by documentation, of voyage taken by his sister and her husband, Nicholas J. Roosevelt in 1811.
Book Synopsis Lloyd's Steamboat Directory, and Disasters On the Western Waters by : James T Lloyd
Download or read book Lloyd's Steamboat Directory, and Disasters On the Western Waters written by James T Lloyd and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 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. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis Steamboats on the Western Rivers in the Civil War by : John Bowman
Download or read book Steamboats on the Western Rivers in the Civil War written by John Bowman and published by . This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book documents the history of steamboats on the Western Rivers in the Civil War... This book contains contemporary photographs of gun-boats that served on the Western Rivers with their histories. The book contains a list of 600 river steamboats that served both sides in the war.
Book Synopsis Come Hell Or High Water by : Michael Gillespie
Download or read book Come Hell Or High Water written by Michael Gillespie and published by Great River Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read these fascinating accounts from steamboat passengers, crews and newspapermen from the nineteenth century. This book explores all aspects of steamboating on the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, from vessel construction to races and accidents.
Book Synopsis The Western River Steamboat by : Adam I. Kane
Download or read book The Western River Steamboat written by Adam I. Kane and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given in honor of Royce Hickman by the Aggieland Rotary Club of Bryan-College Station.
Book Synopsis A History of the Steamboat Washington by : John R. Bowman
Download or read book A History of the Steamboat Washington written by John R. Bowman and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Troubled Waters by : Paul F. Paskoff
Download or read book Troubled Waters written by Paul F. Paskoff and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2007-12 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Troubled Waters, Paul F. Paskoff offers a comprehensive examination of the federal government's river improvements program, which aimed to reduce hazards to navigation on the great rivers of America's interior during the early and mid-nineteenth century. Danger on the rivers came in a variety of forms. Shoals, rapids, ice, rocks, sandbars, and uprooted trees and submerged steamboat wrecks lodged in river beds were the most common perils and accounted for the largest number of steamboat disasters. This daunting array of river hazards required a similarly broad range of efforts to remove or at least ameliorate them. Against a variety of obstacles -- natural, political, and technological -- the river improvements program succeeded in reducing the rate of steamboat loss, even as steamboat traffic dramatically increased. Its success, Paskoff argues, demonstrates that the federal government was far more active than generally thought in promoting economic growth and development in the years leading up to the Civil War. The river improvements program was one of the most volatile issues in national, sectional, and state politics, touching on questions of economic development, constitutional law, partisan politics, and sectional rivalry. Paskoff examines the controversial program from its beginnings during the early republic to 1844, giving careful attention to the policies of Andrew Jackson's administration. He explores the array of objections to the program -- some grounded in a strict interpretation of the Constitution and others in a concern over alleged federal wantonness, corruption, and waste -- and follows the political story through the administration of James K. Polk forward to secession. Paskoff also explains the fiscal, economic, and technological aspects of the hazard problem and its solution, analyzing the federal government's fiscal condition, its capacity to undertake such an ambitious program, and the influence of conditions in the larger economy, including effects of the Mexican War, upon the federal government's finances. Paskoff's lively analysis rests on a bedrock of impressive quantitative evidence, including databases containing every documented steamboat wreck -- more than 1,200 -- on American rivers, lakes, and coastal waters; construction and engine data for more than 600 steamboat packets; and all relevant federal appropriations and expenditures measures, more than 2,300 spending projects in all. Vigorously researched and vividly told, Troubled Waters is an essential contribution to the history of internal improvements in the antebellum United States.
Book Synopsis Lloyd's Steamboat Directory, and Disasters on the Western Waters, by : James T. Lloyd
Download or read book Lloyd's Steamboat Directory, and Disasters on the Western Waters, written by James T. Lloyd and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Way's Packet Directory, 1848-1983 by : Frederick Way (Jr.)
Download or read book Way's Packet Directory, 1848-1983 written by Frederick Way (Jr.) and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Steamboats written by Sara Wright and published by Shire Publications. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paddlewheel riverboat, showboat, sternwheeler, steamboat: call it what you will, but the steamboat revolutionized travel in the 1800s, an era in which young boys dreamed of becoming river pilots and Mark Twain forever memorialized the "Delta Queens" that travelled up and down the Mississippi River. Steamboat enthusiast Sara Wright provides a background into the historical events that made the era perfectly ripe for the development of the steamboat industry in America in this colorful history. Steamboats will look at the people who played key roles in the development of the steam engine and paddle boats, including the important part played by the many African Americans who worked the river. Wright also examines the technology of these floating mansions, from firebaskets and cannons, to radars and whistles, to steam pressure gauges and other innovations.
Book Synopsis Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom by : Robert H. Gudmestad
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 495 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.
Book Synopsis Lloyd's Steamboat Directory, and Disasters on the Western Waters by : James T. Lloyd
Download or read book Lloyd's Steamboat Directory, and Disasters on the Western Waters written by James T. Lloyd and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Lloyd's Steamboat Directory and Disasters on the Western Waters by : James T. Lloyd
Download or read book Lloyd's Steamboat Directory and Disasters on the Western Waters written by James T. Lloyd and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
