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Friends of Clermont:, 2008. 95 pages, illustrated in color. "As gentlemen living during the period of the Enlightenment, Chancellor Livingston and Robert Fulton were expected to serve government and to improve society through science and reason. As steamboats became a regular sight on the Hudson River, sailing captains began staging near-fatal "accidents" with the steamboat..."Livingston wrote Fulton: "Present accidents are all trifles, only let her not be sunk...Next year we will carry all the passengers on the Hudson and starve the skippers of Albany." FINE- SOFTCOVER.. Soft Cover. Fine-. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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Bobs Folly: Fulton, Livingston and the Steamboat Unknown - 2008
by Travis M. Bowman
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- Title Bobs Folly: Fulton, Livingston and the Steamboat
- Author Travis M. Bowman
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- Publisher Friends of Clermont
- Date 2008
- ISBN 9780615235189
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