Steamboating On The Upper Mississippi

Iowa City: The State Historical Society of Iowa, 1968 Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. Large 8vo. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 575 pp, author's introduction, list of 64 b&w illustrations, 1. Mississippi: The Great River; 2. Veritas Caput: Itasca; 3. The Journey of the Waters; 4. Under Four Flags; 5. Fulton's Folly: A Mississippi Dream; 6. Monopoly on the Mississippi; 7. A Flatboat Odyssey; 8. The Voyage of the New Orleans; 9. Henry Miller Shreve; 10. St. Louis: A Port of Call; 11. the Story of the Western Engineer; 12. The Voyage of the Virginia; 13. The Indian and the Steamboat; 14. To Treaty Grounds by Steamboat; 15. Visiting the Great White Father; 16. The Transportation of Indian Annuities; 17. The Last Red Cargoes; 18. Facts, Figures, Furs, and Buffalo Robes; 19. Freight for Red River Oxcarts; 20. Steamboats on the Military Frontier; 21. Wars and Rumors of War; 22. Movement of Troops in Peace Times; 23. Transportation of Supplies; 24. Pigs of Lead; 25. The Fever River Settlement; 26. The Port of Galena; 27. Steamboat Bonanzas; 28. Race Horses in the Lead Trade; 29. Rival Trade Routes; 30. Catlin and teh Fashionable Tour; 31. The West Newton v. the Die Vernon; 32. The Grand Excursion of 1854. 33. Mid Pleasures on Palaces; 34. Paths of Empire; 35. The Crossed the Mississippi; 36. On the Trail of the Immigrants; 37. To the North Star State; 38. Life on the Deck and in the Cabin; 39. Cabin and Deck Passage; 40. Many Cargoes and Strange; 41. Captain Joseph Throckmorton; 42. Daniel Smith Harris: A Fighting Skipper; 43. The Race of the Grey Eagle; 44. When Captains Ruled Like Kings; 45. The Opening of Navigation; 46. Closing of Navigation; 47. Ice Gorges and Winter Quarters; 48. Namesakes of the Ojibway; notes and references, index. First Edition 1968. "This reprint of the book has two new features not contained in the original volume. The first feature is the addition of four 16-page pictorial inserts of photos of steamboatd, bills of lading, old woodcuts, and steel engravings. About three-fourths of these are from the author's personal collection. The second feature is the four decorative maps appearing in the end covers." from the Author's Introduction. Price clipped. Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Green cloth with gilt State Historical Seal and lettering lettering to front board, gilt lettering to spine, and maps and illustrations on endpapers..