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9781585440580
Sandbars and Sternwheelers Steam Navigation on the Brazos
by Puryear, Pamela A., Winfield, Nath, Jr., Nance, Joseph Milton
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- ISBN-13: 9781585440580
- ISBN: 1585440582
- Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
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SUMMARY
Nature never intended the Brazos River for navigation, but before the coming of the railroads Brazos steamboats were a necessary, if always erratic, form of transport. And there were men to meet the challenge. One captain, heedless of shallows, shoals, snags, and falls, boasted that he could tap a keg and run a boat four miles on the suds. Based on rich archival sources, this authoritative and entertaining book tells of the men and boats that braved the river from the earliest days to the late 1890s.Puryear, Pamela A. is the author of 'Sandbars and Sternwheelers Steam Navigation on the Brazos' with ISBN 9781585440580 and ISBN 1585440582.
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