The Tombigbee River steamboats
Subtitle: rollodores, dead heads, and side-wheelers
By: Rufus Ward
Publisher: History Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781596292857
Subjects: Commerce; Shipping; Navigation; History; River steamers; River life; Pictorial works
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The Tombigbee River; title: The beginnings : pirogues, keelboats, and flats; title: The first steamboats; title: Evolution of the Tombigbee steamboat; title: The crews; title: Floating palaces; title: The Eliza Battle; title: War time and the Alice Vivian; title: Railroads and revival; title: Vienna and the turn of the century; title: End of an era; title: Appendix 1: Trip statement of steamer Liberty; title: Appendix 2: The 1877-1881 Hargrove shipping records; title: Appendix 3: Tombigbee drawbridges; title: Appendix 4: A directory of steamboats on the Upper Bigbee; title: Appendix 5: Important landings on the Little Tombigbee.