| | Book | Save | | 1 | Title: | 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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