Steamboats on Northwest Rivers
Subtitle: Before the Dams
Publisher: Caxton Press
Published: March 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780870044380
Subjects: United States - State & Local - Pacific Northwest; Ships & Shipbuilding - History; Northwest, Pacific; Transportation; Inland water transportation; History; River steamers; Ship captains; General
First sentence: When a proposal recently was made to breach four dams on the lower Snake to expedite the passage of salmon and steelhead, a great hue and cry went up from tug and barge operators and port districts, who claim this rash act would end river transportation forever and bring economic ruin to the region.