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1Title:  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    
 Creator:  Gould, Emerson W., b. 1811 
 Publication:  Nixon-Jones printing co, Saint Louis,1889. 
 Call #:  F25NB G696 
 Extent:  xv, 749 p. front., illus. (incl. ports.) 24 cm. 
 Subjects:  Steam-navigation -- Mississippi River Valley | Mississippi River -- Description and travel
 
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2Title:  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    
 Creator:  Lloyd, James T. 
 Publication:  J.T. Lloyd & Co, Cincinnati, O,1856. 
 Call #:  F25NB L793 Vault 
 Extent:  325 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. 
 Subjects:  Fitch, John, -- 1743-1798 | Fulton, Robert, -- 1765-1815 | Steamboat disasters | Steam-navigation -- Mississippi River Valley | Railroads -- United States -- History | Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel | Mississippi River -- Description and travel | Ohio River -- Description and travel | Ohio imprints 1856
 
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3Title:  Lloyd's steamboat directory, and disasters on the western waters    
 Creator:  Lloyd, James T. 
 Publication:  J.T. Lloyd, Philadelphia, Cincinnati,[1856] 
 Call #:  F25NB L793L Vault 
 Extent:  iv, 223 p. illus. (incl. maps) 23 cm. 
 Subjects:  Fitch, John, -- 1743-1798 | Fulton, Robert, -- 1765-1815 | Steamboat disasters | Steam-navigation -- Mississippi River Valley | Railroads -- United States -- History | Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel | Mississippi River -- Description and travel | Ohio River -- Description and travel | Ohio River -- Navigation | Ohio imprints 1856
 
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