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Text, January 23, 1855. The steamer Mary Bess, under Captain Muggah, arrived in New Orleans from Bayou Lafourche.
Bayou Lafourche [1855].
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Text, January 23, 1855. The steamer Mary Bess, under Captain Muggah, arrived in New Orleans from Bayou Lafourche.
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Text, January 23, 1855. The steamer Mary Bess, under Captain Muggah, arrived in New Orleans from Bayou Lafourche.
A Pictorial History of the Bayou Lafourche Area
Author: Daily Comet (Thibodaux, La.)
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Category : Lafourche, Bayou, Region (La.)
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Category : Lafourche, Bayou, Region (La.)
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Steamboats on Louisiana's Bayous
Author: Carl A. Brasseaux
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807129753
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
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.
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807129753
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
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.
The Pughs of Bayou Lafourche
Author: R. Dana Russell
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ISBN: 9780911051254
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 134
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ISBN: 9780911051254
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 134
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Along the River Road
Author: Mary Ann Sternberg
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807150649
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Few thoroughfares offer as rich a history as Louisiana's River Road between New Orleans and Baton Rouge. In this third edition of her extremely popular guide, Along the River Road, Mary Ann Sternberg provides a revised introduction, new images, and updated information on sites and attractions as well as tales and local lore about favorite and overlooked destinations. Featuring background information about the area and a detailed guided tour -- upriver on the east bank and downriver along the west -- the book gives an overview of the River Road, serving as an accessible and definitive companion to exploring the corridor. Sternberg's abiding appreciation of the area's allure, garnered over twenty years, produces a must-have travel companion to a place that far exceeds its common reputation as only a parade of elegant antebellum mansions. In this new edition, she again encourages travelers to experience the many treasures of this wondrous byway for themselves, so they too can see how much it has changed over the past decade.
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807150649
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Few thoroughfares offer as rich a history as Louisiana's River Road between New Orleans and Baton Rouge. In this third edition of her extremely popular guide, Along the River Road, Mary Ann Sternberg provides a revised introduction, new images, and updated information on sites and attractions as well as tales and local lore about favorite and overlooked destinations. Featuring background information about the area and a detailed guided tour -- upriver on the east bank and downriver along the west -- the book gives an overview of the River Road, serving as an accessible and definitive companion to exploring the corridor. Sternberg's abiding appreciation of the area's allure, garnered over twenty years, produces a must-have travel companion to a place that far exceeds its common reputation as only a parade of elegant antebellum mansions. In this new edition, she again encourages travelers to experience the many treasures of this wondrous byway for themselves, so they too can see how much it has changed over the past decade.
Bayou Lafourche
Author: Madewood Arts Foundation (Napoleonville, La.)
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Category : Lafourche, Bayou (La.)
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Category : Lafourche, Bayou (La.)
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Acts Passed by the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana at the Session of the Legislature
Author: Louisiana
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Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Acts Passed by the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana
Author: Louisiana
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 846
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Includes extra sessions.
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 846
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Includes extra sessions.
Bayou Lafourche
Author: Helen M. Bowie
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Category : Lafourche, Bayou, Region (La.)
Languages : en
Pages : 86
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Category : Lafourche, Bayou, Region (La.)
Languages : en
Pages : 86
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Obstructions in the Bayou Lafourche. Resolves of the Legislature of Louisiana, Asking the Removal of Obstructions from the Bayou Lafourche. April 4, 1856. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce
Author: United States. Congress. House
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Languages : en
Pages : 2
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Languages : en
Pages : 2
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