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A book for the married and single,the grave and the gay,
and especially designed for steamboatpassengers.
The Amazing Voyage of the New Orleans by Judith St. George amazon.com Bridge across the Atlantic : the story of Hapag-Lloyd's North American liner services by Otto J. Seiler amazon.com The Burning of the GENERAL SLOCUM by Claude Rust City of the Future, A Narrative History of Kansas City 1850-1950 by Henry C. Haskell, Jr. and Richard B. Fowler 1950 Frank Glenn Publishing Co. inc., Kansas City Mo. City of Hannibal, Hannibal, Mo. : from riverboats to ribbons of concrete amazon.com The Confidence Man (Literary Classics) (Prometheus Books) Fiction by Herman Melville amazon.com The Conquest of the Missouri, 1901, Biography of Capt. Grant Marsh (1850's - early 1900s) by J.M. Hanson Deaf Maggie Lee Sayre : Photographs of a River Life by Maggie Lee Sayre, amazon.com The Delta Queen : Last of the Paddlewheel Palaces by August Perez, Associates. amazon.com The Diary of Joseph T. Anderson - 1861 A day by day account of boats and troops passing Commerce, Mo and Santa Fee, Ill. during 1861 and 62. Lots of good stuff. A plastic bound, 8-1/2 X 11" Paper cover book edited and compiled in 1997 by Betty Marshall, printed and currently sold by The Commerce Historical Society, P.O. Box 93, Commerce, MO 63742 $8.00 + postage with proffits going toward the Old Commerce Cemetery Fund the society has started for the cemetery on the hill in Commerce where Mr. Joseph T. Anderson (April 27, 1840 - September 14, 1895) is burried. "In a way," the society says "He is now helping to restore and maintain it." E-mail to Commerce Historical Society Directory of River Packets in the Mobile-Alabama-Warrior-Tombigbee Trades 1818-1932 by Bert Neville published in 1962 at Selma, Alabama. Discover! America's Great River Road : Upper Mississippi: Your Guide to the Heritage, Natural History by Pat Middleton amazon.com Early Days On The Missouri River A biography of the Missouri River, 1804 - 1904 By John Edward Hicks. $16.96 + $2.50 Ship. and hand. (Mo. residence add $1.06 Sales Tax.) Indian Creek Books, P.O. Box 8731, Kansas City, MO 64114, 816-942-0464 Emma Eileen Grove : Mississippi, 1865 (American Diaries, No 2) Children’s fiction about SULTANA by Kathleen Duey amazon.com The Final Voyage of the CENTRAL AMERICA, 1857: The Saga of a Gold Rush Steamship,the Tragedy of Her Loss in a Hurricane by Normand E. Klare amazon.com Fire canoe : prairie steamboat days revisited by Theodore Barris amazon.com First Steamboat Down the Mississippi Children’s fiction about the amazon.com Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi by George H. Devol amazon.com Frontier Steamboat Town by Glenn Noble amazon.com Full Speed Ahead : The Story of the Steamboat Era on Lake Geneva by Larry Larkin amazon.com Goodnight, sorry for sinking you: the story of the S.S. City of Cairo by Ralph Barker amazon.com The Great Steamboat Race by John Brunner amazon.com The Great Yellowstone Steamboat Race by Robert J. Steelman amazon.com Gunboats Down the Mississippi by John D. Milligan amazon.com History of Early Steamboat Navigation on the Missouri River by Chittend amazon.com In Times Past:Trains,Riverboats,Plane (VHS Cassette) by Traveling in Style amazon.com Inland River Record, 1995 : Diesel and Steam Vessels of the Mississippi River System and Gulf Intracoastal Waterway and Tributaries in Operation As Of . . . by Dan Owen (Editor) Amazon.com The Island Queen : Cincinnati's Excursion Steamer (Ohio History & Culture Series) by John H. White, Robert J. White amazon.com King and Queen of the River The Delta Queen and Delta King story. by Stan Garvey River Heritage Press, 1995 The Legend of the Delta Queen By Bern Keating Delta Queen Steamboat Co., 1986 The Delta Queen Steamboat Company Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain amazon.com Life on the River; A Pictorial History of the Mississippi, the Missouri, and the Western River System by Norbury L. Wayman Crown Publishers, 1971 Lloyd's Steamboat Directory and Disasters on Western Waters by James T. Lloyd, facimile edition published by Young and Klein, Cincinnati, 1979 The Log of the Betsy Ann by Fredrick Way, Jr., illustrations by Paul Briol R.M. McBride & Co., 1933. Long Live the Delta Queen, by Letha C. Greene amazon.com Maritime Museums of North America Including Canada by Robert H. Smith Amazon.com Mark Twain and the Queens of the Mississippi by Cheryl Harness amazon.com Mark Twain Journal Formerly The Mark Twain Quarterly, A periodical Edited by Thomas A. Tenney, c/o English Department The College of Charleston, Charleston, SC 29424 The Material Culture of Steamboat Passengers: Archaeological Evidence from the Missouri River by Annalies Corbin, Roderick Sprague amazon.com Mississippi Odyssey, Hitchiking on the river. The journal of how Chris hitchhiked boat rides--houseboat, towboat and freighter-- from the Twin Cities to the Gulf of Mexico. by Chris J. Markham amazon.com
The Mississippi River Before and After Mark Twain
by Gerald Mortimer. Capers amazon.com
Mississippi Steamboat Days
by J. McCague amazon.com
The Mississippi Steamboat Era in Historic Photographs:
Natchez to New Orleans 1870-1920
by Joan W. Gandy, Joan W. Gandy, Thomas H. Gandy amazon.com
Mississippi Sternwheelers
by Pam Zeck, Gerry Zeck amazon.com
Mr. Roosevelt's Steamboat
by Mary Helen Dohan amazon.com
Mr. Yowder and the Steamboat (Fiction?)
by Glen Rounds amazon.com
Moonlite at 8:30 : the excursion boat story
by Alan L. Bates amazon.com
More Firefighting Lore : 40 More Strange but True Stories from
Firefighting History,Including the Mississippi
Steamboat Fire Whose Death Toll . . .
by W. Fred Conway amazon.com
The Mystery of the Sunken Steamboat (Hannah's Island, Bk. 2)
(Children’s fiction)
by Eric Wiggin amazon.com
Night Boat to New England, 1815-1900
(Contributions in Economics and Economic History, No. 128)
by Edwin L. Dunbaugh amazon.com
The Ohio River
by John Ed Pearce, Richard Nugent (Photographer)
Amazon.com
The Ohio River Handbook and Picture Album
edited by Benjamin F. Klein
Young and Klein, 1958-68
Old Steamboat Days on the Hudson River
by David L. Buckman amazon.com
Old Times on the Upper Mississippi: The Recollections of a
Steamboat Pilot from 1854 to 1863
by George Merrick amazon.com
Copyright 2001, University of Minnesota Press
This is a new edition of a steamboating classic.
Hundreds of boats, captains and other steamboat men and women
are named in this wonderful book. No steamboat enthusiast
should pass on this one. Dave
Owen Sound: Steamboat Days
by Andrew D. Armitage amazon.com
The Pacific Princesses: an illustrated history of Canadian
Pacific Railway's Princess fleet on the
northwest coast
by Robert D. Turner amazon.com
Perilous Journeys: A History of Steamboating on the Chattahoochee,
Apalachicola, and Flint Rivers, 1828-1928
by Edward A. Mueller amazon.com
Poor John Fitch: Inventor of the Steamboat
by Thomas Boyd amazon.com
The Princess story : a century and a half of West Coast shipping
by Norman R. Hacking amazon.com
Race for Freedom (The Riverboat Adventures Series , No 2)
by Lois Walfrid Johnson, Lois Walford Johnson Amazon.com
Raise the Civil War Gunboats
By John Lathum and Friends Order the book
The River Book, Cincinnati and the Ohio
co-edited by Joyce V.B. Cauffield and Carolyn E. Banfield
Program for Cincinnati, 1981
Riverboats
by Ian Mudie amazon.com
Riverboats and rivermen
by William Henry Drage amazon.com
Riverboats Sketchbook
by Chris Halls amazon.com
The River's in My Blood: Riverboat pilots Tell Their Stories
by Jane Curry
University of Nebraska Press, 1983
Rivers of History: Life on the Coosa, Tallapoosa, Cahaba and Alabama
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by Harvey H. Jackson, III
The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa
Robert Fulton and the Steamboat by Hill Rn Robert Fulton : Steamboat Builder (Discovery Biographies) by Joanne L. Henry Robert Fulton, Steamboat Builder. by Joanne Landers Henry
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