Author: Leland D. Baldwin
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822974223
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This book tells the story of river boating in the West before the invention of the steamboat. In a deft combination of thorough research and interesting narrative, Baldwin recreates life on the keelboats and flatboats that plied the Ohio, Mississippi, and other rivers from revolutionary days until about 1820. No one knows who put the first keel along the bottom of one big, clumsy river craft used by the pioneers. but the change made the boats far easier to manage, and travel in both directions became practical all the way to New Orleans.Baldwin examines the many types of craft in use, the different methods of locomotion, and the art of navigation on uncharted rivers full of hidden obstacles. But he never loses sight of the picturesque aspects of his subject, especially the boatmen themselves-a tribe of rugged and fearless men whose colorful lives are described in great detail.The Keelboat Age is a segment cut from the history of the frontier, showing the overwhelming importance of river transportation in the development of the West. The rivers were great arteries, carrying a restless people into a new land. The keelboatman and his craft did much to build a nation.
The Keelboat Age on Western Waters
Author: Leland D. Baldwin
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822974223
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This book tells the story of river boating in the West before the invention of the steamboat. In a deft combination of thorough research and interesting narrative, Baldwin recreates life on the keelboats and flatboats that plied the Ohio, Mississippi, and other rivers from revolutionary days until about 1820. No one knows who put the first keel along the bottom of one big, clumsy river craft used by the pioneers. but the change made the boats far easier to manage, and travel in both directions became practical all the way to New Orleans.Baldwin examines the many types of craft in use, the different methods of locomotion, and the art of navigation on uncharted rivers full of hidden obstacles. But he never loses sight of the picturesque aspects of his subject, especially the boatmen themselves-a tribe of rugged and fearless men whose colorful lives are described in great detail.The Keelboat Age is a segment cut from the history of the frontier, showing the overwhelming importance of river transportation in the development of the West. The rivers were great arteries, carrying a restless people into a new land. The keelboatman and his craft did much to build a nation.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822974223
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This book tells the story of river boating in the West before the invention of the steamboat. In a deft combination of thorough research and interesting narrative, Baldwin recreates life on the keelboats and flatboats that plied the Ohio, Mississippi, and other rivers from revolutionary days until about 1820. No one knows who put the first keel along the bottom of one big, clumsy river craft used by the pioneers. but the change made the boats far easier to manage, and travel in both directions became practical all the way to New Orleans.Baldwin examines the many types of craft in use, the different methods of locomotion, and the art of navigation on uncharted rivers full of hidden obstacles. But he never loses sight of the picturesque aspects of his subject, especially the boatmen themselves-a tribe of rugged and fearless men whose colorful lives are described in great detail.The Keelboat Age is a segment cut from the history of the frontier, showing the overwhelming importance of river transportation in the development of the West. The rivers were great arteries, carrying a restless people into a new land. The keelboatman and his craft did much to build a nation.
The Keelboat Age on Western Waters
Author: Leland Dewitt Baldwin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boats and boating
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boats and boating
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The Keelboat Age on Western Waters. [By] Leland D. Baldwin, Etc. [With Plates and a Bibliography.].
Author: Western Pennsylvania Historical Survey (Pa.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Whiskey Rebels
Author: Leland D. Baldwin
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 9780822951513
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
A succinct account of the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 in Western Pennsylvania.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 9780822951513
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
A succinct account of the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 in Western Pennsylvania.
The Keelboat Age on Western Waters
Author: Leland D. Baldwin
Publisher: Library of Western Pennsylvani
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This book tells the story of river boating in the west before the invention of the steamboat. Recreates life on the keelboats and flatboats that ran the Ohio, Mississippi, and other rivers from revolutionary days until about 1820.
Publisher: Library of Western Pennsylvani
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This book tells the story of river boating in the west before the invention of the steamboat. Recreates life on the keelboats and flatboats that ran the Ohio, Mississippi, and other rivers from revolutionary days until about 1820.
Steamboats on the Western Rivers
Author: Louis C. Hunter
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486157784
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 721
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486157784
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 721
Book Description
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.
Indiana 1816-1850
Author: Donald Francis Carmony
Publisher: Indiana Historical Society
ISBN: 0871951258
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 939
Book Description
In Indiana 1816–1850: The Pioneer Era (vol. 2, History of Indiana Series), author Donald F. Carmony explores the political, economic, agricultural, and educational developments in the early years of the nineteenth state. Carmony's book also describes how and why Indiana developed as it did during its formative years and its role as a member of the United States. The book includes a bibliography, notes, and index.
Publisher: Indiana Historical Society
ISBN: 0871951258
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 939
Book Description
In Indiana 1816–1850: The Pioneer Era (vol. 2, History of Indiana Series), author Donald F. Carmony explores the political, economic, agricultural, and educational developments in the early years of the nineteenth state. Carmony's book also describes how and why Indiana developed as it did during its formative years and its role as a member of the United States. The book includes a bibliography, notes, and index.
The Falls City Engineers
Author: Leland R. Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hydraulic engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hydraulic engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The Emergence of a National Economy, 1775-1815
Author: Curtis P. Nettels
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315496755
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
Part of a series of detailed reference manuals on American economic history, this volume traces the development of agriculture, transportation, labour movements and the factory system, foreign and domestic commerce, technology and the ramifications of slavery.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315496755
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
Part of a series of detailed reference manuals on American economic history, this volume traces the development of agriculture, transportation, labour movements and the factory system, foreign and domestic commerce, technology and the ramifications of slavery.
The Headwaters District
Author: Leland R. Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water resources development
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water resources development
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description