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PublisherOhio University Press

ISBN-100821411063

ISBN-139780821411063

eBay Product ID (ePID)623331

Product Key Features

Number of Pages638 Pages

Publication NameWay's Packet Directory, 1848-1994 : Passenger Steamboats of the Mississippi River System since the Advent of Photography in Mid-Continent America

LanguageEnglish

SubjectUnited States / State & Local / General, United States / 20th Century, United States / 19th Century, Ships & Shipbuilding / History

Publication Year1995

FeaturesRevised

TypeTextbook

AuthorFrederick Way Jr.

Subject AreaTransportation, History

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.4 in

Item Weight55.1 Oz

Item Length10.8 in

Item Width8.5 in

Additional Product Features

Edition Number2

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN94-019619

Reviews"The 620-page book attempts to list the history of every packet that traveled the Mississippi River system from 1848 to the present. â€¦ The book is a 69-year labor of love. â€¦ 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 â€¦ 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 Edition20

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal387.2/436/0973

Edition DescriptionRevised edition

SynopsisThe 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 NumberHE565.U5W39 1994