Troubled Waters: Steamboat Disasters, River Improvements, and American Public Policy, 1821--1860

by Paul F. Paskoff

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In Troubled Waters, Paul F. Paskoff offers a comprehensive examination of the federal government's river improvements program, which aimed to reduce hazards to navigation on the great rivers of America's interior during the early and mid-nineteenth century. Danger on the rivers came in a variety of forms. Shoals, rapids, ice, rocks, sandbars, and uprooted trees and submerged steamboat wrecks lodged in river beds were the most common perils and accounted...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0807132683

ISBN13:9780807132685

Release Date:December 2007

Publisher:LSU Press

Length:344 Pages

Weight:1.45 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.4" x 9.1"

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Troubled Waters: Steamboat Disasters, River Improvements, and American Public Policy, 1821--1860

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