UID:
edoccha_9959228487902883
Umfang:
1 online resource (289 p.)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-8229-7422-3
Inhalt:
This book tells the story of river boating in the west before the invention of the steamboat. Recreates life on the keelboats and flatboats that ran the Ohio, Mississippi, and other rivers from revolutionary days until about 1820.
Anmerkung:
"Paperback reissue."
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Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- 1. The Role of the Western Waters inAmerican Expansion -- 2. Boats and Boat Building -- 3. The Art of Navigation -- 4. The Boatmen -- 5. River Pirates and the Natchez Trace -- 6. The Immigrant -- 7. Shipbuilding on the Western Waters -- 8. The Boatman Has His Day -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
,
English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-322-08134-4
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-8229-5319-6
Sprache:
Englisch
