The Mississippi Steamboat Era in Historic Photographs

The Mississippi Steamboat Era in Historic PhotographsLife on the Mississippi in the heyday of the steamboat lives in our imaginations through the artistry of Mark Twain, Edna Ferber, and Hollywood films, or perhaps a glimpse of a salvaged riverboat living out its last years as a theme restaurant. Surely the Mississippi steamboat era is among the most colorful and romantic in our history. But what was it really like, beyond our secondhand notions of stalwart river pilots, wayward boys and runaway slaves,

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these images were carefully culled from thousands of pages of nineteenth-century European and American books and periodicals

and the understanding of the underlying coordination of movements

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It is high romance

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From the vantage point of a lifetime's experience

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