Author: S.L. Kotar
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786456973
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309
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The steamboat evokes images of leisurely travel, genteel gambling, and lively commerce, but behind the romanticized view is an engineering marvel that led the way for the steam locomotive. From the steamboat's development by Robert Fulton to the dawn of the Civil War, the new mode of transportation opened up America's frontiers and created new trade routes and economic centers. Firsthand accounts of steamboat accidents, races, business records and river improvements are collected here to reveal the culture and economy of the early to mid-1800s, as well as the daily routines of crew and passengers. A glossary of steamboat terms and a collection of contemporary accounts of accidents round out this history of the riverboat era.
Author: Carlos A. Schwantes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780295976914
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Schwantes gathers historical photos, advertisements, posters, and contemporary accounts to recreate one of the most colorful periods in the American West. 255 illustrations, 40 in color.
Author: Joan W. Gandy
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048614206X
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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DIV170 rare and valuable photographs of Mississippi River and its vessels: major steamboats, luxurious interiors, passenger portraits, cargoes, mail boats, capsized ships, much more. Informative text. /div
Author: Michael Gillespie
Publisher: Great River Publishing
ISBN: 9780962082320
Category : Mississippi River
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Read these fascinating accounts from steamboat passengers, crews and newspapermen from the nineteenth century. This book explores all aspects of steamboating on the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, from vessel construction to races and accidents.
Author: George MacBeath
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : St. John River (Québec)
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Author: Robert H. Gudmestad
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807138428
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 495
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The arrival of the first steamboat, The New Orleans, in early 1812 touched off an economic revolution in the South. In states west of the Appalachian Mountains, the operation of steamboats quickly grew into a booming business that would lead to new cultural practices and a stronger sectional identity. In Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom, Robert Gudmestad examines the wide-ranging influence of steamboats on the southern economy. From carrying cash crops to market to contributing to slave productivity, increasing the flexibility of labor, and connecting southerners to overlapping orbits of regional, national, and international markets, steamboats not only benefited slaveholders and northern industries but also affected cotton production. This technology literally put people into motion, and travelers developed an array of unique cultural practices, from gambling to boat races. Gudmestad also asserts that the intersection of these riverboats and the environment reveals much about sectional identity in antebellum America. As federal funds backed railroad construction instead of efforts to clear waterways for steamboats, southerners looked to coordinate their own economic development, free of national interests. Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom offers new insights into the remarkable and significant history of transportation and commerce in the prewar South.
Author: Ed Wolff
Publisher: Riverbend
ISBN: 9781606391099
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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History of the steamboat era in Montana, mid-1800s, 50+ historic photos.
Author: Louis C. Hunter
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486157784
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 721
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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.
Author: George MacBeath
Publisher: St. Stephen, N.B. : Print'N Press
ISBN: 9780920732243
Category : New Brunswick
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Author: George H. Moss
Publisher: Ploughshare Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 114
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