Lloyd's steamboat directory : and disasters of the western waters, containing the history of the first application of steam, as a motive power, the lives of John Fitch and Robert Fulton ... history of the early steamboat navigation on western waters ... full accounts of all the steamboat disasters ... a complete list of steamboats and all other vessels now afloat on the western rivers and lakes ... maps of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers ... list of plantations on the Mississippi river ... one hundred ... engravings, and forty-six maps ...

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• Lloyd's steamboat directory, and disasters of the western waters containing the history of the first application of steam, as a motive power, the lives of John Fitch and Robert Fulton ... history of the early steamboat navigation on western waters ... full accounts of all the steamboat disasters ... a complete list of steamboats and all other vessels now afloat on the western rivers and lakes ... maps of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers ... list of plantations on the Mississippi river ... /
  by: Lloyd, James T.
  Published: (1856)
• Lloyd's steamboat directory, and disasters on the western waters, containing the history of the first application of steam, as a motive power; the lives of John Fitch and Robert Fulton ... history of the early steamboat navigation on western waters ... a complete list of steamboats and all other vessels now afloat on the western rivers and lakes ... maps of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers ... History of all the rail roads in the United States ... One hundred fine engravings, and sixty maps ...
  by: Lloyd, James T.
  Published: (1856)
• Lloyd's steamboat directory, and disasters of the western waters : containing the history of the first application of steam, as a motive power, the lives of John Fitch and Robert Fulton history of the early steamboat navigation on western waters full accounts of all the steamboat disasters : a complete list of steamboats and all other vessels now afloat on the western rivers and lakes maps of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers list of plantations on the Mississippi river /
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  Published: (1856)
• 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 ...
  by: Gould, E. W. (Emerson W.), 1811
  Published: (1889)
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  by: Gould, E. W. (Emerson W.), 1811-
  Published: (1889)