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Item specifics
- Condition
- Book Title
- Way's Packet Directory 1848-1994 : Passenger Steamboats of the Mi
- ISBN
- 9780821411063
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Ohio University Press
ISBN-10
0821411063
ISBN-13
9780821411063
eBay Product ID (ePID)
623331
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
638 Pages
Publication Name
Way's Packet Directory, 1848-1994 : Passenger Steamboats of the Mississippi River System since the Advent of Photography in Mid-Continent America
Language
English
Subject
United States / State & Local / General, United States / 20th Century, United States / 19th Century, Ships & Shipbuilding / History
Publication Year
1995
Features
Revised
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Transportation, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
55.1 Oz
Item Length
10.8 in
Item Width
8.5 in
Additional Product Features
Edition Number
2
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
94-019619
Reviews
"The 620-page book attempts to list the history of every packet that traveled the Mississippi River system from 1848 to the present. … The book is a 69-year labor of love. … Fred Way is the world's foremost authority on river life." The Marietta Times, "This is not a reading book, but rather a reference work. Even so, the marvelous introduction, the lengthy captions in the photo collection, and the various letters and special notes in the boat bios are captivating and enlightening." Seaways' Ships in Scale magazine, "A bargain for most libraries' reference collections as it will be of interest for transportation history, U.S. history, genealogy, and just plain pleasurable browsing."-- American Reference Books Annual, "History scholars, steamboat researchers, genealogists and countless others will rejoice in the long-awaited ... revision of Way's Packet Directory. This is the most comprehensive treatment yet attempted of 19th- and 20th-century steamboats." The Courier-Journal, "The number of steamboats ending their careers by disaster is startling in our current safety-conscious era; on nearly every page there are boats wrecked or destroyed by exploding boilers."-- Ohioana Quarterly, "The 620-page book attempts to list the history of every packet that traveled the Mississippi River system from 1848 to the present.... The book is a 69-year labor of love.... Fred Way is the world's foremost authority on river life."-- The Marietta Times, "History scholars, steamboat researchers, genealogists and countless others will rejoice in the long-awaited … revision of Way's Packet Directory. This is the most comprehensive treatment yet attempted of 19th- and 20th-century steamboats." The Courier-Journal, "This is not a reading book, but rather a reference work. Even so, the marvelous introduction, the lengthy captions in the photo collection, and the various letters and special notes in the boat bios are captivating and enlightening."-- Seaways' Ships in Scale magazine, " Way's Packet Directory is the most useful research aid that anyone studying the steamboats of the western rivers could ask for. (It) is a sine qua non ; and that is putting it mildly."-- The Filson Club Historical Quarterly, "The 620-page book attempts to list the history of every packet that traveled the Mississippi River system from 1848 to the present. ... The book is a 69-year labor of love. ... Fred Way is the world's foremost authority on river life." The Marietta Times
Dewey Edition
20
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
387.2/436/0973
Edition Description
Revised edition
Synopsis
The first Mississippi steamboat was a packet, the New Orleans , a sidewheeler built at Pittsburgh in 1811, designed for the New Orleans-Natchez trade. Packets dominated during the first forty years of steam, providing the quickest passenger transportation throughout mid-continent America., The first Mississippi steamboat was a packet, the New Orleans , a sidewheeler built at Pittsburgh in 1811, designed for the New Orleans-Natchez trade. Packets dominated during the first forty years of steam, providing the quickest passenger transportation throughout mid-continent America. The packets remained fairly numerous even into the first two decades of the twentieth century when old age or calamity overtook them. By the 1930s, the flock was severely depleted, and today the packet is extinct. Containing almost 6,000 entries, Way's Packet Directory includes a majority of combination passenger and freight steamers, but includes in a broader sense all types of passenger carriers propelled by steam that plied the waters of the Mississippi System. Each entry describes its steamboat by rig, class, engines, boilers, the shipyard where and when built, along with tidbits of historical interest on its use, demise, and/or conversion., Passenger Steamboats of the Mississippi River System Since the Advent of Photography in Mid-Continent America Frederick Way, Jr."If you want to know anything about a steamboat, Way's directory is the place to start". -- Louisville Courier-Journal
LC Classification Number
HE565.U5W39 1994
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