Mr. Roosevelt's Steamboat - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mr. Roosevelt's Steamboat write by Mary Helen Dohan. This book was released on 2004-07-31. Mr. Roosevelt's Steamboat available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The true story of a family’s daring four-month Mississippi River journey—a tale of danger, childbirth, and a massive earthquake that “reads like a novel” (Publishers Weekly). In 1811, the steamboat New Orleans was the first to travel the Mississippi River in a four-month journey between Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and New Orleans, Louisiana. The only people brave enough to embark upon the journey were Nicholas Roosevelt; his pregnant wife, Lydia Latrobe; and their young daughter. During the course of the trip, the brilliant but reckless Roosevelt led his family through navigational perils, hostile Indians, and fire aboard. The small, fire-engine-powered steamboat saw not only the birth of Roosevelt and Latrobe’s second child, but also the greatest earthquake ever to strike the eastern United States. That cataclysmic event, described in the book from firsthand accounts, destroyed villages, swallowed islands, and reversed the course of the Mississippi River. Mr. Roosevelt’s Steamboat is an authoritative account of a twenty-five-hundred-mile voyage that significantly contributed to America’s transportation revolution. The dynamic main characters share tender romance and great courage. Their incredible trip down the Mississippi assured the future of steam navigation—and the progress of the great westward movement. “A vivid, fast-moving story.” —New Orleans Times-Picayune “In a class by itself . . . Surges with excitement.” —Louisiana History “Well-researched, vividly told.” —Waterways Journal “Intriguing romance, [a] taut, suspense-filled story, cataclysmic drama . . . A whale of a book.” —Christian Herald
Mr. Roosevelt's Steamboat
Mr. Roosevelt's Steamboat - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mr. Roosevelt's Steamboat write by Mary Helen Dohan. This book was released on 1981-01-01. Mr. Roosevelt's Steamboat available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Documents the 1811 voyage of the first steamboat to travel from Pittsburgh to New Orleans, describing the Roosevelts' experiences with the wilderness, navigational perils, Indians, a devastating earthquake, and more
Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom
Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom write by Robert H. Gudmestad. This book was released on 2011-10-24. Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom Robert Gudmestad offers new insights into the remarkable and significant history of transportation and commerce in the antebellum South. He examines the wide-ranging influence of steamboats on the Southern economy. From carrying cash crops to market, to contributing to slave productivity, increasing the flexibility of labor, and connecting southerners to overlapping orbits of regional, national, and international markets, steamboats not only benefitted slaveholders and northern industries but also affected cotton production.
First Steamboat Down the Mississippi
First Steamboat Down the Mississippi - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook First Steamboat Down the Mississippi write by George Fichter. This book was released on 1989-03-31. First Steamboat Down the Mississippi available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Come aboard the steamboat New Orleans, and experience the real-life adventure of the first steamboat trip down the mighty Mississippi through the eyes of a young crewmember. Tim Collins is a fourteen-year-old orphan trying to get from Pittsburgh to Natchez in the year 1811. He signs on as a deckhand aboard the New Orleans, and meets Nicholas Roo-sevelt, the dynamic builder and owner of the vessel, and his wife Lydia, who braves the untamed river while pregnant. Defying the ridicule of critics who claim that no vessel can defy the current of the mighty Mississippi, the voy-agers set off on their epic journey. They face crafty river pirates, hostile Indians, and wild animals. And can even a steamboat survive the awesome power of the New Madrid earth-quake, the strongest quake in American history?
Steamboat Evolution
Steamboat Evolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Steamboat Evolution write by Basil Clark. This book was released on 2007-03-01. Steamboat Evolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A short introductory history of the origins of powered vessels in America, the UK and France from early thoughts to the successes of Fulton in 1807 and Bell in 1812. It covers the boats, machinery, propulsive methods used, people and places involved. The text with illustrations and appendices of source material provide a sound basis for further study of any single aspect of the subject area.
