The Mississippi Steamboat Era in Historic Photographs - Natchez to New Orleans, 1870-1920  -  Joan W. Gandy

Natchez to New Orleans, 1870-1920

KORTE INHOUD

Life on the Mississippi in the heyday of the steamboat lives in our imaginations through the artistry of Mark Twain, Edna Ferber, and Hollywood films, or perhaps a glimpse of a salvaged riverboat living out its last years as a theme restaurant. Surely the Mississippi steamboat era is among the most colorful and romantic in our history. But what was it really like, beyond our secondhand notions of stalwart river pilots, wayward boys and runaway slaves, of gamblers in tall hats and ladies in hoopskirts, of co...
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1987 Uitgever: Dover Publications Inc 120 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0486252604 ISBN-13: 9780486252605