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Author | : Benton Rain Patterson |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2009-08-11 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 0786453877 |
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Running from New Orleans to St. Louis in the summer of 1870, the race between the Robert E. Lee and the Natchez remains the world's most famous steamboat race. This book tells the story of the dramatic contest, which was won by the stripped-down, cargoless Robert E. Lee after three days, 18 hours, and 14 minutes of steaming through day, night and fog. The Natchez finished the race only hours later, having been delayed by carrying her normal load and tying up overnight because of the intense fog. Providing details on not only the race narrative but also on the boats themselves, the book gives an intimate look at the majestic vessels that conquered the country's greatest waterway and defined the bravado of 19th-century America.
Author | : John Brunner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 596 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9780345258533 |
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Author | : Roy L. Barkau |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Steamboats |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Manly Wade Wellman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2013-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781258860523 |
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This is a new release of the original 1957 edition.
Author | : Manly Wade Wellman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Roy Leslie Barkhau |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Shirley Jordan |
Publisher | : Millbrook Press |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2011-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0761363440 |
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In the summer of 1870, Thomas Leathers was captain of the Natchez. Captain Leathers believed it was the fastest steamboat on the Mississippi River. Captain Cannon of the Robert E. Lee offered to race the Natchez from New Orleans, Louisiana, to St. Louis, Missouri. Twelve-year-old Benjamin Brown, a passenger on the Natchez, wants very much to win the race. But from the moment the Robert E. Lee leaves New Orleans early, it’s clear that Captain Cannon is willing to do whatever it takes for his boat to finish first. Which boat will win? And will the outcome be fair? In the back of the book, you’ll find a script and instructions for putting on a Reader’s Theater performance of this adventure. At our companion website—www.lerneresource.com—you can download additional copies of the script plus sound effects, background images, and more ideas that will help make your Reader’s Theater performance a success.
Author | : Donald C. Ringwald |
Publisher | : Berkeley, Calif. : Howell-North Books |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Hudson River Day Line |
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Pictorial history of steam-boating on the Hudson River, New York, from the days of Robert Fulton to the present.
Author | : Mark Dyreson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2016-04-14 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1317572696 |
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When the colonies that became the USA were still dominions of the British Empire they began to imagine their sporting pastimes as finer recreations than even those enjoyed in the motherland. From the war of independence and the creation of the republic to the twenty-first century, sporting pastimes have served as essential ingredients in forging nationhood in American history. This collection gathers the work of an all-star team of historians of American sport in order to explore the origins and meanings of the idea of national pastimes—of a nation symbolized by its sports. These wide-ranging essays analyze the claims of particular sports to national pastime status, from horse racing, hunting, and prize fighting in early American history to baseball, basketball, and football more than two centuries later. These essays also investigate the legal, political, economic, and culture patterns and the gender, ethnic, racial, and class dynamics of national pastimes, connecting sport to broader historical themes. American National Pastimes chronicles how and why the USA has used sport to define and debate the contours of nation. This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.
Author | : Steven A. Riess |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 921 |
Release | : 2014-03-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1118609409 |
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A Companion to American Sport History presents a collection of original essays that represent the first comprehensive analysis of scholarship relating to the growing field of American sport history. Presents the first complete analysis of the scholarship relating to the academic history of American sport Features contributions from many of the finest scholars working in the field of American sport history Includes coverage of the chronology of sports from colonial times to the present day, including major sports such as baseball, football, basketball, boxing, golf, motor racing, tennis, and track and field Addresses the relationship of sports to urbanization, technology, gender, race, social class, and genres such as sports biography Awarded 2015 Best Anthology from the North American Society for Sport History (NASSH)