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Steamboats on the Western rivers: an economic and technological history

Hunter, Louis C., Hunter, Beatrice Jones.

Year: 1949.

Publisher: Harvard University Press.

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table of contents

Frontmatter

Foreword

Contents Page

Illustrations

Part One The Steamboat as an Economic Instrument

1 The Introduction and Extension of Steam Navigation in the West

2 The Structural Evolution of the Western Steamboat

3 The Mechanical Development of the Western Steamboat

4 The Improvement of the Rivers

5 The Techniques of Steamboat Operation

6 Steamboat Accidents

Part Two The Steamboat as a Business Institution

7 The Organization of Steamboat Transportation

8 Ledgers and Balances

9 Cabin Passage

10 Deck Passage

11 Steamboat Labor

Part Three Peak and Decline

12 The Critical Decade

13 The Movement for Steamboat Regulation

14 War and Postwar Years

15 The Triumph of the Railroads

16 Years of Adjustment

Appendix

Index

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Title:

Steamboats on the Western rivers : an economic and technological history by Louis C. Hunter with the assistance of Beatrice Jones Hunter.

Author:

Hunter, Louis C; Hunter, Beatrice Jones

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2008
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Steamboats on the Western rivers : an economic and technological history by Louis C. Hunter with the assistance of Beatrice Jones Hunter.
Hunter, Louis C, Hunter, Beatrice Jones
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1949.

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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.00403

Subject Headings:

• Steamboats
• Inland navigation -- United States

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