Author: Publisher: Reprint Services Corporation
ISBN: 0781264421
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Early Western Travels, 1748-1846 Volume 9 ~ Paperbound
Author: Publisher: Reprint Services Corporation
ISBN: 0781264421
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Early Western Travels, 1748-1846
Author: Reuben Gold ThwaitesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mississippi River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Early Western Travels, 1748-1846 Volume 6 ~ Paperbound
Author: Publisher: Reprint Services Corporation
ISBN: 0781264391
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Report of the Executive Council of Iowa of Expenses and Disposition of Fees and Moneys Collected of Stateofficers and Institutions ...
Author: Iowa. Executive CouncilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finance
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
Early Western Travels, 1748-1846 Volume 14 ~ Paperbound
Author: Publisher: Reprint Services Corporation
ISBN: 0781264472
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: Analytical index to the series
Author: Reuben Gold ThwaitesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mississippi River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
A Catalogue of Books and Maps Belonging to the Finley Collection on the History and Romance of the Northwest
Author: Knox College (Galesburg, Ill.). LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Mississippi River
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
The Keelboat Age on Western Waters
Author: Leland D. BaldwinPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822974223
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This 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.
Early Western Travels, 1748-1846 Volume 11 ~ Paperbound
Author: Publisher: Reprint Services Corporation
ISBN: 0781264448
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Early Western Travels, 1748-1846 Volume 26 ~ Paperbound
Author: Publisher: Reprint Services Corporation
ISBN: 0781264596
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description