Fifty years on the Mississippi : or, Gould's history of river navigation. Containing a history of the introduction of steam as a propelling power 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 transportation. Causes of the decline--destruction of steamboats on western waters--biographies of prominent steamboatmen ...
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Author / Creator: | Gould, E. W. (Emerson W.), 1811. |
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Imprint: | Saint Louis : Nixon-Jones Printing Co., 1889. |
Description: | xv, 749 p. : front., ill. (incl. ports.) |
Language: | English |
Series: | Library of American civilization ; LAC 10341. |
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Format: | Microform Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1801387 |
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microfc E169.1.L537 1971
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