000099627 000__ 01695cam\a2200265W1\4500
000099627 001__ 99627
000099627 005__ 20210513035147.0
000099627 008__ 711229s1889\\\\mouac\\\\\\\\\00010\engm\
000099627 010__ $$a04-019514
000099627 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocm00188785
000099627 035__ $$a00269114
000099627 035__ $$9AAL2335SI
000099627 035__ $$a99627
000099627 040__ $$aDLC$$cOUN$$dIAY$$dISE
000099627 043__ $$an-usm--
000099627 049__ $$aISES
000099627 0500_ $$aF351$$b.G69
000099627 099__ $$aF351 .G69
000099627 1001_ $$aGould, E. W.$$q(Emerson W.),$$d1811-
000099627 24510 $$aFifty years on the Mississippi;$$bor, Gould's history of river navigation. Containing a history of the introduction of steam as a propelling power on ocean, lakes and rivers--the first steamboats on the Hudson, the Delaware, and the Ohio rivers--navigation of western rivers before the introduction of steam--character of the early navigators--description of first steamboats--steamboat New Orleans in 1811, and sixty consecutive boats, when and where built--their effect upon the settlement of the valley of the Mississippi--character and speed of boats at different periods--appropriations by Congress for the improvement of western water ways-- floods in the Mississippi valley for 150 years--Mississippi river commission and its work. Rapid increase and decline of river transportation. Causes of the decline--destruction of steamboats on western waters--biographies of prominent steamboatmen.$$cBy E. W. Gould.
000099627 260__ $$aSaint Louis,$$bNixon-Jones printing co.,$$c1889.
000099627 300__ $$axv, 749 p.$$bfront., illus. (incl. ports.)$$c24 cm.
000099627 650_0 $$aSteam-navigation$$zMississippi River Valley.
000099627 651_0 $$aMississippi River$$xDescription and travel.
000099627 85200 $$bsc$$hF351 .G69
000099627 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:99627$$pGLOBAL_SET
000099627 966__ $$c 1$$lUSISPC$$mNONCIR$$sF351 .G69$$xISES$$z050$$b39203009839759
000099627 980__ $$aBIB
000099627 980__ $$aBOOK
000099627 980__ $$aARCHIVE