Fifty Years on the Mississippi; Or, Gould’s History of River Navigation. Containing a History of the Introduction of Steam as a Propelling Power on Ocean, Lakes and Rivers -- The First Steamboats on the Hudson, the Delaware, and the Ohio Rivers -- Navigation of Western Rivers before the Introduction of Steam -- Character of the Early Navigation -- Description of First Steamboats -- Steamboat New Orleans in 1811, and Sixty Consecutive Boats, When and Where Built -- Their Effect Upon the Settlement of the Valley of the Mississippi -- Character and Speed of Boats at Different Periods -- Appropirations by Congress for the Improvement of Western Water Ways -- Floods in the Mississippi Valley for 150 YEars -- Mississippi River Commission and Its Work. Rapid Increace and Decline of River Transportation: Causes of the Decline -- Destruction of Steamboats on Western Waters -- Biographies of Prominent Steamboatmen -- Illustrated by Photographs and Cuts of Steamboats at Different Periods.
by Gould, E. W
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- Fifty Years on the Mississippi; Or, Gould’s History of River Navigation. Containing a History of the Introduction of Steam as a Propelling Power on Ocean, Lakes and Rivers -- The First Steamboats on the Hudson, the Delaware, and the Ohio Rivers -- Navigation of Western Rivers before the Introduction of Steam -- Character of the Early Navigation -- Description of First Steamboats -- Steamboat New Orleans in 1811, and Sixty Consecutive Boats, When and Where Built -- Their Effect Upon the Settlement of the Valley of the Mississippi -- Character and Speed of Boats at Different Periods -- Appropirations by Congress for the Improvement of Western Water Ways -- Floods in the Mississippi Valley for 150 YEars -- Mississippi River Commission and Its Work. Rapid Increace and Decline of River Transportation: Causes of the Decline -- Destruction of Steamboats on Western Waters -- Biographies of Prominent Steamboatmen -- Illustrated by Photographs and Cuts of Steamboats at Different Periods.
- Author
- Gould, E. W
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Long’s College Book Co., 1951.
- Place of Publication
- Columbus, Ohio
- Date Published
- 1951
- Keywords
- Western Americana, American West, Steamboat, Steamboating, River Navigation, Americana, U. S. History, United States History, Transportation.
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