The Western River Steamboat

From: The Journal of Southern History | Date: May 1, 2005| Author: Allen, Michael | Copyright information

The Western River Steamboat. By Adam I. Kane. Foreword by Alan L. Bates. Ed Rachal Foundation Nautical Archeology Series. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2004. Pp. xx, 188. Paper $19.95, ISBN 1-58544-343-3; cloth $39.95, ISBN 1-58544-322-0.)

In The Western River Steamboat, Adam I. Kane aims to build upon the foundation laid by Louis C. Hunter in his classic Steamboats on the Western Rivers: An Economic and Technological History (Cambridge, Mass., 1949). Kane accomplis...

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