The Great American Steamboat Race - 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 The Great American Steamboat Race write by Benton Rain Patterson. This book was released on 2009-08-11. The Great American Steamboat Race available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Running from New Orleans to St. Louis in the summer of 1870, the race between the Robert E. Lee and the Natchez remains the world's most famous steamboat race. This book tells the story of the dramatic contest, which was won by the stripped-down, cargoless Robert E. Lee after three days, 18 hours, and 14 minutes of steaming through day, night and fog. The Natchez finished the race only hours later, having been delayed by carrying her normal load and tying up overnight because of the intense fog. Providing details on not only the race narrative but also on the boats themselves, the book gives an intimate look at the majestic vessels that conquered the country's greatest waterway and defined the bravado of 19th-century America.
Benjamin Brown and the Great Steamboat Race
Benjamin Brown and the Great Steamboat Race - 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 Benjamin Brown and the Great Steamboat Race write by Shirley Jordan. This book was released on 2011-01-01. Benjamin Brown and the Great Steamboat Race available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the summer of 1870, Thomas Leathers was captain of the Natchez. Captain Leathers believed it was the fastest steamboat on the Mississippi River. Captain Cannon of the Robert E. Lee offered to race the Natchez from New Orleans, Louisiana, to St. Louis, Missouri. Twelve-year-old Benjamin Brown, a passenger on the Natchez, wants very much to win the race. But from the moment the Robert E. Lee leaves New Orleans early, it’s clear that Captain Cannon is willing to do whatever it takes for his boat to finish first. Which boat will win? And will the outcome be fair? In the back of the book, you’ll find a script and instructions for putting on a Reader’s Theater performance of this adventure. At our companion website—www.lerneresource.com—you can download additional copies of the script plus sound effects, background images, and more ideas that will help make your Reader’s Theater performance a success.
The Great Steamboat Race
The Great Steamboat Race - 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 The Great Steamboat Race write by John Brunner. This book was released on 1983. The Great Steamboat Race available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Benjamin Brown and the Great Steamboat Race
Benjamin Brown and the Great Steamboat Race - 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 Benjamin Brown and the Great Steamboat Race write by Shirley Jordan. This book was released on 2011-01-01. Benjamin Brown and the Great Steamboat Race available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The story of a race between steamboats Natchez and Robert E. Lee in 1870 includes a script for readers' theater.
Steamboat Disasters of the Lower Missouri River
Steamboat Disasters of the Lower Missouri River - 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 Disasters of the Lower Missouri River write by Vicki Berger Erwin & James Erwin. This book was released on 2020-02-24. Steamboat Disasters of the Lower Missouri River available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During the nineteenth century, more than three hundred boats met their end in the steamboat graveyard that was the Lower Missouri River, from Omaha to its mouth. Although derided as little more than an "orderly pile of kindling," steamboats were, in fact, technological marvels superbly adapted to the river's conditions. Their light superstructure and long, wide, flat hulls powered by high-pressure engines drew so little water that they could cruise on "a heavy dew" even when fully loaded. But these same characteristics made them susceptible to fires, explosions and snags--tree trunks ripped from the banks, hiding under the water's surface. Authors Vicki and James Erwin detail the perils that steamboats, their passengers and crews faced on every voyage.
