The Steamboat Era - 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 Steamboat Era write by S.L. Kotar. This book was released on 2009-10-28. The Steamboat Era available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The steamboat evokes images of leisurely travel, genteel gambling, and lively commerce, but behind the romanticized view is an engineering marvel that led the way for the steam locomotive. From the steamboat's development by Robert Fulton to the dawn of the Civil War, the new mode of transportation opened up America's frontiers and created new trade routes and economic centers. Firsthand accounts of steamboat accidents, races, business records and river improvements are collected here to reveal the culture and economy of the early to mid-1800s, as well as the daily routines of crew and passengers. A glossary of steamboat terms and a collection of contemporary accounts of accidents round out this history of the riverboat era.
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.
Chesapeake Steamboats
Chesapeake Steamboats - 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 Chesapeake Steamboats write by David C. Holly. This book was released on 1994. Chesapeake Steamboats available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An appendix details the workings of early steamboat engines. Other appendices provide data on steamboats discussed in the text and maps of the region. The narratives extend the history of the era from that included in other books on the topic. The book, above all, is an enthusiastic, nostalgic, and thoroughly readable exposition of a bygone era and a "vanished fleet."
Steamboats on the Western Rivers
Steamboats on the Western Rivers - 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 on the Western Rivers write by Louis C. Hunter. This book was released on 2012-04-30. Steamboats on the Western Rivers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Come Hell Or High Water
Come Hell Or High Water - 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 Come Hell Or High Water write by Michael Gillespie. This book was released on 2001. Come Hell Or High Water available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Read these fascinating accounts from steamboat passengers, crews and newspapermen from the nineteenth century. This book explores all aspects of steamboating on the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, from vessel construction to races and accidents.
