On 27 April 1865 the steamboat Sultana carrying recently released Union army prisoners of war exploded on the Mississippi River resulting in 1800 deaths. It is regarded as one of the worst maritime disasters in U.S. history. The steamboat was already in dire need of repairs before it departed...
The Federal government had issued contracts to steamboats on the Mississippi River to transport Union soldiers up the river and back to their homes. The officer in charge of transporting the troops in Vicksburg was Army Captain George Williams. He was concerned that many of the steamboat captains...
Paskoff answers those questions in a book rooted in the literatures on antebellum political economy, economic history, and (to a lesser degree) technological history. Chapter 1 describes the role of the western rivers (the Ohio, Missouri, Mississippi, and their tributaries) in antebellum commerce ...
Click here for books about Steamboat DisastersThe Streckfus Riverboat Dynasty: Jazz and the Big Smoke Canoe by Arthur L. Smith. "A thrilling story of the days of excursion riverboat glory on the great Mississippi and Ohio rivers." Amazon ...
Paskof, Troubled Waters: Steamboat Disasters, River Improvements, and American Public Policy, 1821–1860 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007); Herbert Quick and Edward Quick, Mississippi Steamboatin': A History of Steamboating on the Mississippi and Its Tributaries (New York: H....
Troubled Waters: Steamboat Disasters, River Improvements, and American Public Policy, 1821–1860 (review)This thoroughly researched, clearly written volume analyzes the impact of federal river and harbor improvements on ante bellum Western ... M Aldrich - 《Enterprise & Society》 被引量: 0发表: 20...
Troubled Waters: Steamboat Disasters, River Improvements, And American Public Policy, 1821-1860In the era of the shallow-draft steamboat, when fallen trees choked river commerce, the Mississippi's deadliest hazard was its floating gauntlet... T Shallat - 《Technology & Culture》 被引量: 0发表:...
Steamboat, any watercraft propelled by steam, but more narrowly, a shallow-draft paddle wheel steamboat widely used on rivers in the 19th century, and particularly on the Mississippi River and its principal tributaries in the United States. Steamboat pio