Steamboats on the Western Rivers

Steamboats on the Western Rivers
Author: Louis C. Hunter
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 721
Release: 2012-04-30
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 0486157784
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Richly detailed definitive account covers every aspect of steamboat's development — from construction, equipment, and operation to races, collisions, rise of competition, and ultimate decline of steamboat transportation.

Lloyd's steamboat directory, and disasters on the western waters, containing the history of the first application of steam, as a motive power; the lives of John Fitch and Robert Fulton ... History of the early steamboat navigation on western waters ... Full accounts of all the steamboat disasters ... A complete list of steamboats and all other vessels now afloat on the western rivers and lakes ... maps of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers ... List of plantations on the Mississippi rivers ... One hundred ... engravings, and forty six maps ...

Lloyd's steamboat directory, and disasters on the western waters, containing the history of the first application of steam, as a motive power; the lives of John Fitch and Robert Fulton ... History of the early steamboat navigation on western waters ... Full accounts of all the steamboat disasters ... A complete list of steamboats and all other vessels now afloat on the western rivers and lakes ... maps of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers ... List of plantations on the Mississippi rivers ... One hundred ... engravings, and forty six maps ...
Author: James T. Lloyd
Publisher:
Total Pages: 320
Release: 1856
Genre: Mississippi River
ISBN:
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Download Lloyd's steamboat directory, and disasters on the western waters, containing the history of the first application of steam, as a motive power; the lives of John Fitch and Robert Fulton ... History of the early steamboat navigation on western waters ... Full accounts of all the steamboat disasters ... A complete list of steamboats and all other vessels now afloat on the western rivers and lakes ... maps of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers ... List of plantations on the Mississippi rivers ... One hundred ... engravings, and forty six maps ... Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle