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http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 XTF Search Results (docsPerPage=100;f2-subject=Steam-navigation -- Mississippi River Valley) http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/search?docsPerPage%3D100;f2-subject%3DSteam-navigation%20--%20Mississippi%20River%20Valley Results for your query: docsPerPage=100;f2-subject=Steam-navigation -- Mississippi River Valley Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT Fifty years on the Mississippi: or, Gould's history of river navigation. Containing a history of the introduction of steam as a propelling power on ocean, lakes and rivers--the first steamboats on the Hudson, the Delaware, and the Ohio rivers--navigation of western rivers before the introduction of steam--character of the early navigators--description of first steamboats--steamboat New Orleans in 1811, and sixty consecutive boats, when and where built--their effect upon the settlement of the valley of the Mississippi--character and speed of boats at different periods--appropriations by Congress for the improvement of western water ways-- floods in the Mississippi valley for 150 years--Mississippi river commission and its work. Rapid increase and decline of river transportation. Causes of the decline--destruction of steamboats on western waters--biographies of prominent steamboatmen. Gould, Emerson W., b. 1811 http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=marc/skclmarc202890322046876.mrc http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=marc/skclmarc202890322046876.mrc Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT 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 disaster ; a complete list of steamboats and all other vessels now afloat on the western rivers and lakes, maps of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers ; lists of plantations on the Mississippi River ; one hundred engravings and forty six maps. Lloyd, James T. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=marc/skclmarc202890322046876.mrc http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=marc/skclmarc202890322046876.mrc Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT Lloyd's steamboat directory, and disasters on the western waters. Lloyd, James T. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=marc/skclmarc202890322046876.mrc http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=marc/skclmarc202890322046876.mrc Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT