Steamboats and the rise of the cotton kingdom [electronic resource] / Robert Gudmestad.
Publication details: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2011.Description: xii, 280 p. : mapsISBN:- 9780807138397 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780807138410 (e-book)
- Inland water transportation -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
- Steamboats -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
- River steamers -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
- Cotton trade -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
- Indians of North America -- Relocation -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
- Southern States -- Commerce -- History -- 19th century
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- HE631.S6 G84 2011eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : the New Orleans -- Southern steamboat entrepreneurs -- Working on old man river -- Floating palaces and high-pressure prisons -- Indian removal -- Speed and safety -- The nature of improvements -- The rise of the cotton kingdom -- Steamboats in decline -- Epilogue : Mark Twain's odyssey -- Appendix A. Estimates of steamboat construction, tonnage, and longevity on southern rivers, 1811-1860 -- Appendix B. Choctaws, Creeks, Chickasaws, Seminoles, and Cherokees removed by steamboat, 1830-1843 -- Appendix C. Estimates of accident rate, 1811 1851, and fatality rate from boiler explosions, 1816 1848, for western steamboats -- Appendix D. Estimates of wood consumption by southern steamboats, 1811-1860 -- Appendix E. Estimated costs associated with southern steamboats, 1811-1860 -- Appendix F. Estimated ton-miles, passenger miles, and tonnage hauled for southern -- Steamboats and southern railroads in selected years.
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