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...
by Gould, E. W. (Emerson Willard)
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- 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...
- Author
- Gould, E. W. (Emerson Willard)
- Illustrator
- A Few Woodcuts
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Nixon-Jones Printing
- Place of Publication
- St Louis, Mo
- Date Published
- 1889
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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