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The Western River Steamboat (Studies in Nautical Archaeology, No. 8)
The Western River Steamboat - Studies in Nautical Archaeology, No. 8
Author: Adam I. Kane
The first Western steamboat was built in 1811 in Pittsburgh, and thousands more were constructed in the years before the Civil War. These waterborne vehicles helped define the nineteenth-century trans-Appalachian West. Decades of incremental changes created a distinctive watercraft, and the steamboat became perfectly suited to the conditions of ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781585443437
ISBN-10: 1585443433
Publication Date: 3/2004
Pages: 208
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Publisher: Texas AM University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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