In writing a history of navigation on the rivers of the Mississippi valley, it is so intimately connected with the settlement of the country, the character and habits of the early navigators - the modes of early transportation, the invention of steam - its application to navigation - the names and the peculiarities of its inventors and promoters, its effect upon the development of the valley, morally and physically, that to write intelligently of the one necessarily involves that of the others. Kytka, the artist who has furnished the illustrations, among which will be seen some fine pen and ink sketches from portraits. Louis Niles' Register Potter's American Monthly Columbia Magazine, and libraries in Washington, New York, Cincinnati, and St. Switzler Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi Commodore Treble's History of Steam Navigation Floyd's Steamboat Directory St. Louis Republic Louisiana Gazette, 1812 Memphis Avalanche Louisville Courier-Journal Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette Cincinnati Enquirer Pittsburgh Dispatch New Orleans Picayune Memphis Appeal De Bow's Review Hall's West Internal Commerce of the United States, by Wm. Louis Missouri Gazette, 1808, its successors, Missouri Republican and the St. Bryant, of New Orleans Times-Democrat James Kerr, New Orleans Daily States Austin R. In compiling the following pages, the author is largely indebted to individual friends, newspapers, periodicals and historical works. To the memory of those who, after struggling for years to overcome the embarrassments and dangers incident in the life of a boatman, have been wrecked on the shoals of time, and wafted into a haven of rest on the shores of the beautiful river, where they await the arrival of their friends and cotemporaries, who are still contending with the adversities of this life before crossing the river that ferries but one way, this work is dedicated. Mississippi Valley Transportation Company - Tow-Boat and Barges. New Orleans and Vicksburg Packet Natchez.
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