“The” Western Pilot
Author: Samuel Cumings
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Published: 1838
Total Pages: 156
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Author: Samuel Cumings
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Published: 1838
Total Pages: 156
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Published: 1837
Total Pages: 172
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Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781033389904
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Library of Congress. Map Division
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Published: 1909
Total Pages: 1238
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mary Helen Dohan
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Published: 2004-07-31
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781455609062
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe true story of a family’s daring four-month Mississippi River journey—a tale of danger, childbirth, and a massive earthquake that “reads like a novel” (Publishers Weekly). In 1811, the steamboat New Orleans was the first to travel the Mississippi River in a four-month journey between Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and New Orleans, Louisiana. The only people brave enough to embark upon the journey were Nicholas Roosevelt; his pregnant wife, Lydia Latrobe; and their young daughter. During the course of the trip, the brilliant but reckless Roosevelt led his family through navigational perils, hostile Indians, and fire aboard. The small, fire-engine-powered steamboat saw not only the birth of Roosevelt and Latrobe’s second child, but also the greatest earthquake ever to strike the eastern United States. That cataclysmic event, described in the book from firsthand accounts, destroyed villages, swallowed islands, and reversed the course of the Mississippi River. Mr. Roosevelt’s Steamboat is an authoritative account of a twenty-five-hundred-mile voyage that significantly contributed to America’s transportation revolution. The dynamic main characters share tender romance and great courage. Their incredible trip down the Mississippi assured the future of steam navigation—and the progress of the great westward movement. “A vivid, fast-moving story.” —New Orleans Times-Picayune “In a class by itself . . . Surges with excitement.” —Louisiana History “Well-researched, vividly told.” —Waterways Journal “Intriguing romance, [a] taut, suspense-filled story, cataclysmic drama . . . A whale of a book.” —Christian Herald
Author: Leland D. Baldwin
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Published: 1941-09-15
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0822974223
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book tells the story of river boating in the West before the invention of the steamboat. In a deft combination of thorough research and interesting narrative, Baldwin recreates life on the keelboats and flatboats that plied the Ohio, Mississippi, and other rivers from revolutionary days until about 1820. No one knows who put the first keel along the bottom of one big, clumsy river craft used by the pioneers. but the change made the boats far easier to manage, and travel in both directions became practical all the way to New Orleans.Baldwin examines the many types of craft in use, the different methods of locomotion, and the art of navigation on uncharted rivers full of hidden obstacles. But he never loses sight of the picturesque aspects of his subject, especially the boatmen themselves-a tribe of rugged and fearless men whose colorful lives are described in great detail.The Keelboat Age is a segment cut from the history of the frontier, showing the overwhelming importance of river transportation in the development of the West. The rivers were great arteries, carrying a restless people into a new land. The keelboatman and his craft did much to build a nation.
Author: Clarke, firm, booksellers, Cincinnati
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Published: 1893
Total Pages: 374
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Published: 1931
Total Pages: 150
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Published: 1866
Total Pages: 314
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Samuel Cumings
Publisher: Palala Press
Published: 2015-09-06
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9781341715938
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