3 edition of The first steamboat voyage on the western waters found in the catalog.
The first steamboat voyage on the western waters
Latrobe, John H. B.
Published
1871
by [J. Murphy] in Baltimore
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Written in
Edition Notes
| Series | Maryland Historical Society. Fund-publication -- no. 6., Western Americana, 1550-1900 -- reel 315, no. 3148. |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | F176 .M37 no. 6 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Format | Microform |
| Pagination | 32 p. |
| Number of Pages | 32 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL17685884M |
| LC Control Number | 87590361 |
Today, it ushered in the era of commercial steamboat navigation on the western and mid-western continental rivers when the first load of cargo arrived in Louisiana. Owned by Robert Fulton and Robert R. Livingston, and built by Nicholas Roosevelt, the New Orleans started its maiden voyage in March from Pittsburgh along the Monongahela River. western commerce and settlement advanced as in seven-league boots. As captain of the Enterprise, Shreve commanded the first steamboat voy-age up the river from New Orleans to Louisville, made in While Shreve shared in the glory of this achievement, the allegedly exceptional conditions under which this voyage was performed-a flood stage so.
THE first steamboat on what used to be called the Western Waters descended the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers in , a year of comet and earthquake. Since there is an amazingly small amount of material on the subject, this is one of those books that you have to read to learn more about the first steamboat on western waters. While it is informative, from my own perspective I could get only so into at/5.
During the nineteenth century, more than three hundred boats met their end in the steamboat graveyard that was the Lower Missouri River, from Omaha to its mouth. Although derided as little more than an "orderly pile of kindling," steamboats were, in fact, technological marvels superbly adapted to the river's : Vicki Berger Erwin, James Erwin. Early accounts, after consultation with participants, of the voyage Click for extract from The Rambler in North America by Charles Joseph Latrobe () Click for copy of The First Steamboat on the Western Waters by J.H.B. Latrobe () Click for copy of A Lost Chapter in the History of the Steamboat by J.H.B. Latrobe ().
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The first steamboat voyage on the western waters. [John H B Latrobe; John Murphy; Maryland Historical Society,] -- Stories heard as child by author, backed up by documentation, of voyage taken by his sister and her husband Nicholas J.
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Arriving in New York in the middle of January,Mr. Roosevelt's report, bearing on, its face evidence of the thoroughness of his examination, impressed Fulton and Livingston with his own convictions; and in the spring of that year be returned to Pittsburg to superintend the building of the first steamboat that was launched on the Western waters.
URL: Contents. View entire text. Title ; The first steamboat voyage on the western waters ; Date ; ; Identifier ; ; Extent ; 30 p. ; 21 cm. Place of Publication ; Pittsburg.
Most of the early steamboats on the Missouri river (as well as the other Western rivers) were built on the Ohio River, first at Pittsburgh, then at Wheeling, then at the area around the falls of the Ohio at Louisville, including Jeffersonville, Indiana, then at Cincinnati.
Enterprise () Jump to navigation Jump to search. The steamboat Enterprise demonstrated for the first time by her epic 2,mile (3, km) voyage from New Orleans to Brownsville, Pennsylvania that steamboat commerce was practical on the Mississippi River and its Fate: Sank at Rock Harbor, Rock Island, Ohio.
By John H. Latrobe The Maryland Historical Maryland Society When reading to the Maryland Historical Society, on a former occasion, "A Lost Chapter in the History of the Steamboat," I had occasion to refer to the first voyage of a vessel of that description on the Western waters, calling it a Romance in Size: KB.
Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, Skinny 8vo. 32 pp. Foxing, rubbing and light soiling to covers. Brown spotty soiling to covers and spine. Spine ends split at corners, bumped. Spine ends and back bottom cover corner chipped.
Rough cut text block. Inside covers and first and last page soiled lightly with yellowish spots and blotched. A republication of J.H.B.
Latrobe's The first steamboat voyage on the western waters, as published inwith reproduction of original t.p. Description: 39 pages illustrations 23 cm: Responsibility: By Carl R. Bogardus. Meanwhile, the other type of steamboat, the Western steamboat, was made to carry more freight.
Western steamboats would ply shallow, rocky waters and were thus designed differently from traditional, Eastern steamboats. Instead of low-pressure engines, the Western steamboats had high-pressure ones and were made of lightweight construction.
Get this from a library. The first steamboat voyage on the western waters. [John H B Latrobe; University of Pittsburgh. University Library System. Digital Research Library.]. Additional Physical Format: Print version: Latrobe, John H.B. (John Hazlehurst Boneval), First steamboat voyage on the western waters.
account was published as The First Steamboat Voyage on the Western Waters by the Maryland Historical Society (Fund Publication No. 6, Baltimore, ); but a more accessible account is Mr. Roosevelt's Steamboat: The First Steamboat to Travel the Mississippi, by Mary Helen Dohan (New York, Dodd, Mead & Co., ).File Size: KB.
The first steamboat voyage on the western waters. [John H B Latrobe] Book Microform: Microfilm: Master microform: EnglishView all editions and formats: Add tags for "The first steamboat voyage on the western waters.". Be the first. Similar Items. Related Subjects: (5) Steam-navigation -- Mississippi River.
For accounts of the New Orleans’ voyage: John H. Latrobe, The First Steamboat Voyage on the Western Waters, Maryland Historical Society, “Steamboat Adventure: Down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers with Nicholas and Lydia Roosevelt, ”. New Orleans was the first steamboat on the western waters of the United States.
Owned by Robert Fulton and Robert R. Livingston, and built by Nicholas Roosevelt, its – voyage from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to New Orleans, Louisiana, on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers ushered in the era.The first steamboat ever to ply the waters of the Ohio and Mississippi had several unexpected events, including a major earthquake as the boat was anchored between Louisville and Owensboro, Ky.
Go directly to the quake details. William Leigh Pierce - quake eyewitness.The steamboat was the first great American contribution to modern technology. First developed to the point of practical commercial success in this country, the steamboat was quickly incorporated into the economic structure of the nation and within a few years became the principal vehicle of transportation on the main channels of inland commerce.
