BOOKS ON RIVERBOATS

St. Louis and the Mighty Mississippi in the Steamboat Age: The Collected Writings of Ruth Ferris by Ruth Ferris amazon.com The Sea Hunter True Adventures With Famous Shipwrecks By Clive Cussler & Craig Dirgo amazon.com This book has a very good account of the paddlewheeler LEXINGTON Disaster. Ships in Tasmanian waters, riverboats, ferries and the floating bridge by George W. Cox amazon.com The Sicamous & the Naramata : steamboat days in the Okanagan by Robert D. Turner amazon.com The Steamboat Bertrand: History, Excavation and Architecture, by Jerome Petsche, published by the Government Printing Office in 1974. This book is available at Ohio County Public Library. Steamboat Era in the Muskokas: To the Golden Years, Vol. I by Richard Tatley amazon.com Steamboat Era in the Muskokas: Golden Years to Today, Vol II by Richard Tatley amazon.com Steamboat Gothic Fiction by Frances Parkinson Keyes amazon.com Steamboat in a Cornfield by John Hartford amazon.com Steamboat Legacy : The Life & Times of a Steamboat Family by Dorothy Heckmann Shrader Amazon.com Wein Press, Hermann Mo. 1993 The Steamboat Monopoly: Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824 by Maurice G. Baxter amazon.com Steamboat on the Chesapeake : Emma Giles and the Tolchester Line by David C. Holly amazon.com Steamboat to the Shore: A Pictorial History of the Steamboat Era in Monmouth County, New Jersey by George H., Jr. Moss amazon.com Steamboat Treasures: The Inadvertent Autobiography of a Steamboatman, by Dorothy Heckmann Shrader, Wein Press, Hermann, Mo. 1997 Steamboat: Virginia V by M.S. Kline amazon.com Steamboat: Yesterday on Casco Bay by William J. Frappier amazon.com Steamboatin' Log : A Mile by Mile Steamboat Journey Up the Mississippi River from Cairo, Illinois to Minneapolis, Minnesota/ Upper Mississippi River by Bern Keating amazon.com Steamboating on the Trent-Severn by Richard Tatley amazon.com Steamboating on the Upper Mississippi by William J. Petersen amazon.com An unabridged Dover (1995) republication of the work originally published by The State Historical Society of Iowa, (1968) Steamboating on the Western Rivers! (Mississippi and Missouri Rivers) By river historian Michael Gillespie Two new anthologies Greatriver.Com Steamboating Sixty-Five years on Missouri's Rivers by Capt. William L. Heckman, Burton Publishing Co., Kansas City, Mo. 1950 Steamboats Come True : American Inventors in Action by James Thomas Flexner Amazon.com Steamboats and the Cotton Economy : River Trade in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta by Harry P. Owens Amazon.com Steamboats and Ferries on the White River : A Heritage Revisited by Duane Huddleston, Pat Wood, Sammie Cantrell Rose amazon.com Steamboats and Steamboat Men by Cecil R. Roseberry amazon.com Steamboats on the Coosa River in the Rome, Georgia-Gadsden-Greensport, Alabama Trades by Bert Neville, Published by Selma Printing Service Steamboats on the Mississippi by the editors of American Heritage Magazine Harper and Row, 1962, a young readers book. Steamboats on the St. Croix by Anita Albrecht Buck amazon.com Steamboats on the Saskatchewan by Bruce Braden Peel amazon.com Steamboats on the Western Rivers: An Economic and Technological History by Louis C. Hunter, Pub. Harvard University, 1949. amazon.com Sternwheelers on the Great Kanawha River by Sutphin, Gerald W. & Andre, Richard A. Pictorial Histories Publishing, Charleston, WV. 1991 198 pages. LC#91-60924 ISBN 0-929521-21-8 USD 25.00. 198 pages. 400 (?) illustrations. Note: loaded with pictures of steamboats and reproductions of freight bills, tickets, newspaper clippings, along with commentary. Sternwheelers & Steam Tugs; An Illustrated History of the Canadian Pacific Railway's British Columbia Lake & River Service, by Robert D. Turner. 8.75" x 11.75", 302 pages with 300+ photos and line drawings, Paper, ISBN 1-55039-089-9 $39.95 The Story of Mississippi Steamboats (Cornerstones of Freedom) by R. Conrad Stein, Tom Dunnington amazon.com The Sultana Tragedy : America's Greatest Maritime Disaster by Jerry O. Potter amazon.com Sycamore Shores Journalist's account of People and places along the Ohio in the 30s. by Clark B. Firestone McBride and Co., 1936. Tales of the Mississippi by Ray Samuel Hastings House, 1955 Tall Stacks : A Celebration of America's Steamboat Heritage by Miles J. Wolf amazon.com Terrifying Steamboat Stories by Sue Harrison, James Donahue amazon.com Thunder Along the Mississippi : The River Battles That Split the Confederacy by Jack D. Coombe amazon.com



Tidewater by Steamboat : A Saga of the Chesapeake:

                           The Weems Line on the Patuxent, Potomac,
                            and Rappahannock
                     by David C. Holly   amazon.com

Travels on the Lower Mississippi, 1879-1880 : A Memoir by Ernstvon
                                                  Hesse-Wartegg
                     by Ernst Hesse-Wartegg,
                         Frederic Trautmann (Translator)  amazon.com

Twilight on the Bay : The Excursion Boat Empire of B.B. Wills
                     by Brian J. Cudahy  amazon.com

The U.S. gunboat Carondolet, 1861-1865
                     by Myron J. Smith  amazon.com

U.S. Lighthouse Service Tenders, 1840-1939"
                                D.R. Peterson
                                Eastwind Publishing, amazon.com

Voyages of the Steamboat Yellow Stone
                     by Donald Jackson  amazon.com

Upper Mississippi River Rafting Steamboats
                    by Edward A. Mueller, Harry G. Dyer Amazon.com

Upper Mississippi River History : Fact-Fiction-Legend
                     by Ron Larson  amazon.com

Wabash River Guide Book by Jerry Hay

Way's Packet Directory 1848-1994 : Passenger Steamboats of
                      the Mississippi River System Since the Advent
                      of Photography in Mid-Continent America
                      by Frederick Way Jr. (Compiler),
                      Frederick Way, Joseph W. Rutter
                      amazon.com

Way's Steam Towboat Directory
                     by Frederick Way  amazon.com

West By Steamboat     amazon.com

Where the River Runs Deep : the story of a Mississippi River pilot
                      Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press,
                      c1993. xiv, 273 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Wild River Wooden Boats
                    By river historian Michael Gillespie
                    Two new anthologies  Greatriver.Com

Willie Jasper's Golden Eagle : Being an Eyewitness Account of the
       Great Steamboat Race Between the Natchez and the Robert E. Lee
                     by F. N. Monjo  amazon.com

White River (Indiana) Guide Book by Jerry M. Hay