Stories heard as child by author, backed up by documentation, of voyage taken by his sister and her husband, Nicholas J. Roosevelt in 1811.

This book tells the story of river boating in the West before the invention of the steamboat. In a deft combination of thorough research and interesting narrati

Richly detailed definitive account covers every aspect of steamboat's development — from construction, equipment, and operation to races, collisions, rise of

Given in honor of Royce Hickman by the Aggieland Rotary Club of Bryan-College Station.

According to James Lloyd, the 1856 publisher of this guide, "The price of this volume is so small, that every man, woman and child, should have a copy for refer