New York: Bramhall House From the Early Side-Wheelers to the Big Packets. Dust jacket and book all good+ condition. Old price sticker on front cover of dust jacket. 269 pages with index, black and white photos and illustrations in center of book. CR MCMLXVII (l1967). Steamboats were the wilderness breakers that advanced trade on the Upper Mississippi, the Missouri, Arkansas, Red River, and the Rio Grande. The Lower Colorado traffic was important enough to call for scheduled sailing from Yuma to San Francisco. Thousands of emigrants who went over the Oregon Trail spread out into valleys and steamboats appeared to carry their produce throughout the West.. Hard Cover. (more information)

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Parents Publishing Press CR 1967, 112 pages, black and white photos. X-library with stamps only. History of steamboats on the Hudson River, Mississippi, Long Island Sound, and the Far West. Illustrated front cover of steamboats in color - edges bumped and shows wear. Book is tight and clean.. Hard Cover. (more information)

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Boston: Published by Little Brown, CR 1944, 1978, newly illustrated and new foreward, 406 pages with index. Dust jacket has slight tears, overall good+. Beautiful blue front cover and spine decorated with gold steamboat. A splendid, meditative myth - debunking and celebratory account of the 1st American invention of world shattering importance - the steamboats. Americana, History,. Hard Cover. (more information)

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Limited Edition, First. Published by the Connecticut Historical Society, title date 1956, CR 1956, first edition. Dust jacket has a piece gone on spine top, mylar cover on dust jacket, with gray cover s, all very good. Someone wrote with pencil on the back of the dust jacket. 128 pages with index. This is a Limited Edition of 1250. Author tracked vessels that began or ended their careers in distant waters, under different names, to Maine, Hudson River, Great Lakes, Chesapeake Bay, and the Gulf of Mexico. He also researched up-river services from Hartford to Springfield, to Holyoke and even into Vermont. Black and white illustrations and photos.. Hard Cover. (more information)

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