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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Smoke Up the River: Steamboats and the Arkansas Delta

Smoke Up the River: Steamboats and the Arkansas Delta

Hawkins, Van

Hardcover

BoatingRegional: South

Publisher Price: $23.95

ISBN10: 0986399213
ISBN13: 9780986399213
Publisher: Writers Bloc
Published: Jul 11 2016
Pages: 148
Weight: 1.40
Height: 0.38 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English

The Mississippi River is said to run fast and deep. This book shares one characteristic, but not the other. It is not a study of steamboats in great depth, from the diameter of smokestacks on each vessel to the maximum pressure tolerated by various boilers. Rather, it is designed to provide an easily accessible overview of steamboats that in one way or another had ties to what is called the Arkansas Delta. Brief commentary about individual boats is included as well as historic context when a noteworthy one exists. Sections include river craft prior to the advent of steamboats, antebellum boats, Civil War vessels, and post-war steamers from 1870 to 1899. The story ends with the century, a somewhat arbitrary conclusion, but railroads and other means of transportation and shipping dominated by then. By 1900, riverboats usually picked up and delivered cargo at towns and commercial centers and not at plantation landings.

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