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Steamboats on the Colorado River, 1852-1916

Title: Steamboats on the Colorado River, 1852-1916 / Richard E. Lingenfelter.
Author: Lingenfelter, Richard E.
Publication: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, ©1978.

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Description

xv, 195 pages : illustrations; 19 x 28 cm

Subjects

Genre/Form

History.

Note

Bibliography (note)

Contents

Preface -- Opening the River -- The Arizona fleet -- Through progress of railroads -- Steamboats in the canyons -- Closing the River -- Appendixes: A: Steamboats; B: Operators; C: Table of distances -- Notes to the chapters.
Illustrations: Fort Yuma and Jaeger's Ferry in 1852 -- The Charles H. Spencer under construction in Glen Canyon -- Lieutenant Joseph Christmas Ives -- Mohave chiefs, Cairook and Iretaba -- Johnny Moss with Piute chief, Tercherrum -- John Alexander Mellon -- Isaac Polhamus, Jr. -- Stamp mill at Eldorado Canyon -- Steamer landing at Green River, Wyoming -- Gold miners in Glen Canyon -- Mexicali, flooded in 1905.
Maps: Whipple's map of Colorado River crossings, 1849 -- Hardy's erroneous map of the Colorado Estuary -- Steamboat landings on the Colorado River, 1850s -- Steamboat landings on the Colorado River, 1860s and 1870s -- Chart of the mouth of the Colorado, 1873-1875 -- Steamboat landings on the Colorado River, 1880s -- 1900s -- Steamboat landings on the Upper Colorado and Green Rivers, 1890s -- 1910s -- Colorado River during the flooding of the Imperial Valley, 1905-1907.

ISBN

LCCN

78016241

OCLC

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library