Full steam ahead
Subtitle: reflections on the impact of the first steamboat on the Ohio River, 1811-2011
By: edited by Rita Kohn
Contributors: Hanover College. Rivers Institute
Publisher: Indiana Historical Society Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Indianapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780871952936
Subjects: New Orleans (Steamboat); Steamboats; River steamers; HIstory; Navigation; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Sue Dewine; title: Preface / Charles E. Parrish; title: Acknowledgments / Rita Kohn; title: Introduction / Rita Kohn; title: Harbinger of revolution / Leland R. Johnson; title: Structural evolution of the western rivers steamboat / Captain Alan L. Bates; title: A synoptic history of towboating and its origins / Jack E. Custer; title: The era of town building below the falls: whatever will benefit a part will benefit the whole / Rick Bell; title: Omen of evil: steamboats and the colonization of the Ohio River Valley / Thomas C. Buchanan; title: The steamboat and black urban life in the Ohio Valley / Joe William Trotter Jr.; title: Steamboat music / Sandra M. Custer; title: The steamboat New Orleans and its impact on navigation on Ohio River tributaries / Gerald W. Sutphin; title: The Ohio River: a world-class inland waterway / Robert Willis; title: Afterword: The river today and tomorrow / Kenneth A. Wheeler; title: Appendix 1: Belle of Louisville: sole survivor of the pioneering New Orleans; title: Linda Harris and Kadie Engstrom; title: Appendix 2: The Rivers Institute at Hanover College:; title: A list of materials on river people, steamboats, and the Ohio; title: Mississippi River system in the Agnes Brown Duggan Library / Douglas Denné and Katherine McCardwell.