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Lumbering and steamboating on the St. Croix River

Lumbering and steamboating on the St. Croix River

White Durant, Edward

Paperback

Boating21st Century United States HistoryAgriculture

ISBN10: 9353700523
ISBN13: 9789353700522
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: May 1 2019
Pages: 34
Weight: 0.12
Height: 0.08 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Before railways tightened the map, the St. Croix was a working artery. Timber, steam, and stubborn water. In Lumbering and Steamboating on the St. Croix River, Edward White Durant captures the hard, ingenious world of the st croix river valley as it fuelled the nineteenth century midwest. With the eye of a witness and the discipline of a recorder, he traces lumbering and logging history from winter camps and river drives to sawmills, landings, and the boom of settlements. He attends to routes, ownership, and the talk of captains and millmen, showing how decisions upstream echoed in markets downstream. Running alongside is vivid steamboat transportation history: packets, towboats, schedules, hazards, and the daily calculations that turned river commerce and industry into livelihoods. The result is regional history nonfiction that reads with urgency, texture, and place. Durant's account matters because it preserves a local economy that helped shape Great Lakes maritime history and the wider story of mississippi river steamboats and inland navigation. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. Offered as a collector reprint edition of the complete unabridged text, it rewards casual readers who love true stories of work and water, and it serves local history researchers, genealogy and heritage readers, and anyone building a library of classic American industrial and transport writing. A book of memory, fixing a changing landscape fast.

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