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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
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The Tombigbee River Steamboats: Rollodores, Dead Heads and Side-Wheelers

The Tombigbee River Steamboats: Rollodores, Dead Heads and Side-Wheelers

Ward, Rufus

Hardcover

BoatingRegional: South

Publisher Price: $32.99

ISBN10: 1540217795
ISBN13: 9781540217790
Publisher: History Pr
Published: Jul 30 2010
Pages: 226
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Tombigbee River flows through the history of Alabama and Mississippi, connecting the Black Prairie cotton belt of northeast Mississippi and west Alabama to Mobile and the Gulf of Mexico. In the early 1800s, it became the regional artery of commerce and trade, with steamboats carrying cotton to the port of Mobile and then returning upriver with farm supplies and consumer goods. Today, the rollodores, who rolled cotton bales down slides to the decks of boats; the sunken logs, or dead heads, that could sink a boat if struck; and the side-wheeler model steamboats have all but vanished. The Tombigbee River Steamboats brings this forgotten era back to life through accounts of the steamboats, their crews and their trials, such as the haunting story of the steamer Eliza Battle, which burned and sank on a freezing, flooded river.

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