Author: James Lee Burke
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451648146
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 624
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Picking up where "The Glass Rainbow" ends, "Creole Belle" finds David Robicheaux recuperating in New Orleans near the site an oil well blowout on the Gulf. Robicheaux is visited by a mysterious visitor and is surprised by what's inside a floating block of ice. Available in a tall Premium Edition.
Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1160
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Author: United States. Navy Dept
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Author: United States. Navy Department
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Category : Confederate States of America
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 2684
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Author: Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
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Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Louisiana. Commissioner of Military Records
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Category : Louisiana
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Author: American Duroc-Jersey Association
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Category : Duroc Jersey swine
Languages : en
Pages : 1062
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Category : Duroc Jersey swine
Languages : en
Pages : 994
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Author: Carl A. Brasseaux
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807129753
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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In an extraordinary feat of research and intrepid historical navigation, Carl A. Brasseaux and Keith P. Fontenot serve as guides through the labyrinthian and often harrowing world of Louisiana bayou steamboat journeys of the mid to late nineteenth century. The bayou country's steamboat saga mirrors in microcosm the tale of America's most colorful -- and most highly romanticized -- transportation era. But Brasseaux and Fontenot brace readers with a boldly revisionist picture of the opulent Mississippi River floating palaces: stripped-down, utilitarian freight-haulers belching smoke from twin stacks, churning through shallow swamps and narrow tributary streams, and encountering such hazards as shoals, sawyers, stumps, highwater and dry-bed seasons, and the remains of vessels claimed by those treacheries. For decades, steamboats transported goods, passengers, and mail between New Orleans and south Louisiana's vibrant interior agricultural region, bearing testimony to the resourcefulness, ingenuity, and tenacity of crews in conquering the challenges posed by a forbidding environment. Brasseaux and Fontenot marshaled a monumental array of information, including sources long-buried in courthouses, private collections, and the records of the Army Corps of Engineers. They offer data on some five hundred steamboats, keelboats, and barges known to have operated in the bayou country. This book is the first major study of a fascinating slice of the steamboat industry, showcasing a trade critically important to New Orleans's prosperity but largely forgotten in southern historiography until now. Encompassing economic, social, transportation, and environmental history, it captures the period just before the iron horse emerged as America's undisputed master of inland conveyance.
