Fifty years on the Mississippi
Subtitle: 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 ...
Series: Library of American civilization -- LAC 10341.
Publisher: Nixon-Jones Printing Co.
Published: 1970
Place of publication: Saint Louis
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 749
Subjects: Steam-navigation -- Mississippi River Valley.; Mississippi River -- Description and travel.
Notes: Microfiche. Chicago : Library Resources,inc., 1970. 1 microfiche ; 8 x 13 cm. (Library of American civilization ; LAC 10341)