Full steam ahead : reflections on the impact of the first steamboat on the Ohio River, 1811-2011 / edited by Rita Kohn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kohn, Rita T.

Hanover College. Rivers Institute.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

River steamers--Ohio River--History.

River steamers.

Steamboats--Ohio River--History.

Steamboats.

Navigation.

History.

Ohio River Valley--History.

Ohio River Valley.

New Orleans (Steamboat)--History.

New Orleans (Steamboat).

Ohio River--Navigation--History.

Ohio River.

Physical Description:

xviii, 240 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 x 28 cm

Place of Publication:

Indianapolis : Indiana Historical Society Press, 2011.

Contents:

Foreword / Sue Dewine

Preface / Charles E. Parrish

Acknowledgments / Rita Kohn

Introduction / Rita Kohn

Harbinger of revolution / Leland R. Johnson

Structural evolution of the western rivers steamboat / Captain Alan L. Bates

A synoptic history of towboating and its origins / Jack E. Custer

The era of town building below the falls: whatever will benefit a part will benefit the whole / Rick Bell

Omen of evil: steamboats and the colonization of the Ohio River Valley / Thomas C. Buchanan

The steamboat and black urban life in the Ohio Valley / Joe William Trotter Jr.

Steamboat music / Sandra M. Custer

The steamboat New Orleans and its impact on navigation on Ohio River tributaries / Gerald W. Sutphin

The Ohio River: a world-class inland waterway / Robert Willis

Afterword: The river today and tomorrow / Kenneth A. Wheeler

Appendix 1: Belle of Louisville: sole survivor of the pioneering New Orleans

Linda Harris and Kadie Engstrom

Appendix 2: The Rivers Institute at Hanover College:

A list of materials on river people, steamboats, and the Ohio

Mississippi River system in the Agnes Brown Duggan Library / Douglas Denné and Katherine McCardwell.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0871952939

9780871952936

OCLC:

729863301

Publisher Number:

99946135405