Shantyboats and Roustabouts: The River Poor of St. Louis, 1875-1930

by Gregg Andrews

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Shantyboat dwellers and steamboat roustabouts formed an organic part of the cultural landscape of the Mississippi River bottoms during the rise of industrial America and the twilight of steamboat packets from 1875 to 1930. Nevertheless, both groups remain understudied by scholars of the era. Most of what we know about these laborers on the river comes not from the work of historians but from travel accounts, novelists, songwriters, and early film...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0807178470

ISBN13:9780807178478

Release Date:December 2022

Publisher:LSU Press

Length:336 Pages

Weight:1.46 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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