Steamboats and the Cotton Economy
Subtitle: River Trade in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: November 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9781578066223
Subjects: Maritime history; Ships & shipping: general interest; United States - State & Local - South; History - U.S.; History; History: American; USA; Business & Economics; Ships & Shipbuilding - History; History - General History; Economic History
First sentence: The small, 110-ton, sidewheel steamer Missouri left her home port of New Orleans and steamed to Natchez, "Under the Hill," in February 1830.