STEAMBOATING ON THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI!--HUGE OLD HISTORY! 1870-1968! RARE!

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"STEAMBOATING ON THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI" by William J. Peterson is a BIG (2 1/4" thick) extensive history of steamboating on the Mississippi River from 1870 to 1968. It contains 48 chapters of fascinating history based on years of exhaustive research using newspapers from river towns, records of steamboat companies, obsure archives, and personal accounts. Chapters cover such topics as the grain trade, the rise of packet companies, steamboating on Upper Mississippi tributaries, the railroad, decline of packet boats, life on board steamboats, personal looks at Captains plus much much more! This is a CLASSIC originally published in 1937 with this updated version published in 1968 by the State Historical Society of Iowa. EXTRAORDINARY DETAIL! VERY HARD TO FIND!
Book is HARDBACK with DUSTJACKET and protective plastic cover published in 1968. It is in EXCELLENT CONDITION, measures 6 3/4" x 9 1/2" and contains a BIG 576 pages with several pages of steamboat photographs and photographs of historical documents.
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