Saint Louis, the Commercial Metropolis of the Mississippi Valley
Author : L. U. Reavis
Publisher :
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 32,82 MB
Release : 1874
Category : Industries
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Author : L. U. Reavis
Publisher :
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 32,82 MB
Release : 1874
Category : Industries
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Author : John Thomas Scharf
Publisher :
Page : 1366 pages
File Size : 13,20 MB
Release : 1883
Category : Saint Louis (Mo.)
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Page : 892 pages
File Size : 41,81 MB
Release : 1882
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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Author : Richard Edwards
Publisher :
Page : 1048 pages
File Size : 14,25 MB
Release : 1860
Category : Mississippi River Valley
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Page : 962 pages
File Size : 22,52 MB
Release : 1892
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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Author : George Ripley
Publisher :
Page : 918 pages
File Size : 39,49 MB
Release : 1875
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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Author : Myron J. Smith, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 26,93 MB
Release : 2024-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1476650403
With a unique prewar history as a snagboat and James B. Eads' noted catamaran salvage vessel, the Benton survived a tumultuous government acquisition process and conversion to become flagship of the Union's Civil War Western river navy. From Island No. 10 through the Vicksburg and Red River campaigns, the revolutionary ironclad participated in both combat and administrative activities, earning a prominent place in nautical legend and literature. This first book-length profile of the warship reveals little known details of both her prewar and wartime career and reviews her final disposal.
Author : Ronald R. Switzer
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 42,48 MB
Release : 2013-10-29
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0806151307
On April 1, 1865, the steamboat Bertrand, a sternwheeler bound from St. Louis to Fort Benton in Montana Territory, hit a snag in the Missouri River and sank twenty miles north of Omaha. The crew removed only a few items before the boat was silted over. For more than a century thereafter, the Bertrand remained buried until it was discovered by treasure hunters, its cargo largely intact. This book categorizes some 300,000 artifacts recovered from the Bertrand in 1968, and also describes the invention, manufacture, marketing, distribution, and sale of these products and traces their route to the frontier mining camps of Montana Territory. The ship and its contents are a time capsule of mid-nineteenth-century America, rich with information about the history of industry, technology, and commerce in the Trans-Missouri West. In addition to enumerating the items the boat was transporting to Montana, and offering a photographic sample of the merchandise, Switzer places the Bertrand itself in historical context, examining its intended use and the technology of light-draft steam-driven river craft. His account of steamboat commerce provides multiple insights into the industrial revolution in the East, the nature and importance of Missouri River commerce in the mid-1800s, and the decline in this trade after the Civil War. Switzer also introduces the people associated with the Bertrand. He has unearthed biographical details illuminating the private and social lives of the officers, crew members, and passengers, as well as the consignees to whom the cargo was being shipped. He offers insight into not only the passengers’ reasons for traveling to the frontier mining camps of Montana Territory, but also the careers of some of the entrepreneurs and political movers and shakers of the Upper Missouri in the 1860s. This unique reference for historians of commerce in the American West will also fascinate anyone interested in the technology and history of riverine transport.
Author : State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Library
Publisher :
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 38,12 MB
Release : 1881
Category : American literature
ISBN :
Includes titles on all subjects, some in foreign languages, later incorporated into Memorial Library.
Author : Harry Thurston Peck
Publisher :
Page : 978 pages
File Size : 47,39 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN :