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Days of the Steamboats

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Exciting history of American steamboats, the palatial passenger boats and workaday freight steamers of the Atlantic and Pacific coastal waters, the Great Lakes and the Hudson and Mississippi river systems. The book is colorfully narrated in picture and prose. Will appeal to young adult readers as well as older steamboat buffs…. More >>

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Long Day’s Journey: The Steamboat and Stagecoach Era in the Northern West

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In LONG DAY’S JOURNEY Carlos Schwantes gathers historical photographs, advertisements, posters, and contemporary accounts to recreate one of the most colorful periods in the American West. He traces the rapidly evolving saga of miners and settlers struggling to get from here to there in the days before railroads reached the West, trying to establish methods of transportation and communication between the eastern United States and the new territories that became Ore… More >>

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