Lloyd's steamboat directory : and disasters on the western waters
Title:
Lloyd's steamboat directory : and disasters on the western waters
Author:
Lloyd, James T.
ISBN:
9780965051347
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Nashville, Tenn. : Land Yacht Press, [2000]
©2000
Physical Description:
326 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Series:
Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America, from its discovery to the present time ; 20670-20673.
General Note:
"Containing the history of the first application of steam as a motive power; the lives of John Fitch and Robert Fulton ... ; early scenes on the western waters, from 1798 to 1812 ... ; a complete list of steamboats and all other vessels now afloat on the western rivers and lakes ... ; maps of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers ... ; plantations on the Mississippi River ... ; the earthquake in 1812, &c., &c."
Document ID:
SD_ILS:1298903