Days Of The Steamboats

Author : William H. Ewen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Days of the Steamboats written by William H. Ewen and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exciting history of American steamboats -- the palatial passenger boats and workaday freight steamers of the Atlantic and Pacific coastal waters, the Great Lakes, and the Hudson and Mississippi river systems -- is colorfully narrated in picture and prose by steamboat expert William H. Ewen. This general work will appeal to young adult readers as well as older steamboat buffs.

Author : Louis C. Hunter
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486157784
Total Pages : 721 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Steamboats on the Western Rivers written by Louis C. Hunter and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Fred Erving Dayton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Steamboat Days written by Fred Erving Dayton and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Fred Erving Dayton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Steamboat Days written by Fred Erving Dayton and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Lear Buckman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old Steamboat Days on the Hudson River written by David Lear Buckman and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Gillespie
Publisher : Great River Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780962082320
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Come Hell Or High Water written by Michael Gillespie and published by Great River Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Carlos A. Schwantes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780295976914
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Long Day's Journey written by Carlos A. Schwantes and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schwantes gathers historical photos, advertisements, posters, and contemporary accounts to recreate one of the most colorful periods in the American West. 255 illustrations, 40 in color.

Author : Sara Wright
Publisher : Shire Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780747811411
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Steamboats written by Sara Wright and published by Shire Publications. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paddlewheel riverboat, showboat, sternwheeler, steamboat: call it what you will, but the steamboat revolutionized travel in the 1800s, an era in which young boys dreamed of becoming river pilots and Mark Twain forever memorialized the "Delta Queens" that travelled up and down the Mississippi River. Steamboat enthusiast Sara Wright provides a background into the historical events that made the era perfectly ripe for the development of the steamboat industry in America in this colorful history. Steamboats will look at the people who played key roles in the development of the steam engine and paddle boats, including the important part played by the many African Americans who worked the river. Wright also examines the technology of these floating mansions, from firebaskets and cannons, to radars and whistles, to steam pressure gauges and other innovations.

Author : James Tigner, Jr.
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780764331091
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Steamboat Days on the Chesapeake written by James Tigner, Jr. and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 300 postcards and engaging text present Maryland's beach resorts of yesteryear. Before the completion of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and improved highways, the Chesapeake Bay was dotted with many beach resorts. By the 1890s, the two most popular beaches in Maryland were Betterton and Tolchester Beach. It was a time when going to the beach meant an excursion boat ride across the bay. Betterton's heyday was from the 1890s to the 1940s, when Betterton's Victorian wooden hotels were booked solid and served home cooked meals all summer. From its beginnings as a small picnic ground in the 1870s, Tolchester Beach grew to become the Chesapeake Bay's biggest and best-known amusement park and bathing beach until 1962. This book is a must read for beach lovers, historians, and postcard collectors alike.

Author : David Lear Buckman
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3849652513
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old Steamboat Days On The Hudson River written by David Lear Buckman and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 1907 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a short book that was originally called forth by a double anniversary, the centennial of the Fulton steamboat and the three hundredth anniversary of Hudson’s great discovery. The author has had the benefit of a long experience with the places which he describes, and his family has enjoyed unusual advantages through personal acquaintance with many of the river captains. After describing Fulton and his great invention, the author passes on to the development of the river navigation. He recounts the gradual evolution from the primitive crafts of the early nineteenth century to the palatial steamers of the present. He gives miscellaneous data relating to the monopoly of traffic, to disasters of historic importance; he includes a few anecdotes, and concludes his text with a brief narrative of Hudson's voyage and the projected memorials.