Steamboats and Ferries on the White River

Steamboats and Ferries on the White River
Author: Duane Huddleston
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Total Pages: 198
Release: 1998-07-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1557285381

Over 120 black and white photographs, sketches, and maps illustrate the history of steamboating on the White River from the early 1800s through the Civil War and 1900s. This keenly researched study pays lasting tribute to the golden age of steam travel.

Steamboating on the Upper Mississippi

Steamboating on the Upper Mississippi
Author: William J. Petersen
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 660
Release: 1996-01-19
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 9780486288444

Massive, richly documented study of Mississippi steamboating from 1823 to about 1870. Steamboats as cargo carriers, in Indian affairs, during Civil War, much more. Over 130 illustrations.

Steamboats on the Western Rivers

Steamboats on the Western Rivers
Author: Louis C. Hunter
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 721
Release: 2012-04-30
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 0486157784

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.

The First Steamboat Voyage on the Western Waters

The First Steamboat Voyage on the Western Waters
Author: John Hazlehurst Boneval Latrobe
Publisher:
Total Pages: 44
Release: 1871
Genre: Maryland
ISBN:

Stories heard as child by author, backed up by documentation, of voyage taken by his sister and her husband, Nicholas J. Roosevelt in 1811.

History of Early Steamboat Navigation on the Missouri River: Life and Adventures of Joseph La Barge

History of Early Steamboat Navigation on the Missouri River: Life and Adventures of Joseph La Barge
Author: Hiram Martin Chittenden
Publisher: Franklin Classics Trade Press
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2018-11-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780353451247

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