Fifty years on the Mississippi : or, Gould's history of river navigation ... /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Saint Louis :
Nixon-Jones Print. Co.,
1889.
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| Item Description: | "Containing a history of the introduction of steam as a propellingpower 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 navigators--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--appropriations by Congress for the improvement of western water ways-- floods in the Mississippi valley for 150 years--Mississippi river commission and its work. Rapid increase and decline of river transportaion. Causes of the decline--destruction of steamboats on western waters--biographies of prominent steamboatmen." Microfiche. Ann Arbor, Mich., Xerox University Microfilms, 1975. 9 sheets. 10.5 x 14.8 cm (Western Americana 13015) Microform. |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 749 pages : illustrations, portraits |