In July 1882, the steamboat Red Cloud hit a snag near Fort Peck, Montana, and settled into the bed of the Missouri River with a full cargo. The flagship of I. G. Baker & Company, which control
"One corner of the great American panorama enlarged to highlight starry-eyed visionaries, political machinations, indefatigable ingenuity, and cockeyed optimism."Kirkus ReviewsA sweeping work of hist
Jutting out of Wisconsin into the blue waters of Lake Michigan, the scenic peninsula of Door County is endowed with the longest coastline of any county in the nation. Since the mid-1800s, the region h
The River We Have Wrought is a landmark history of the upper Mississippi, from early European exploration through the completion of a navigable channel and a system of locks and dams in the mid-twenti
In an extraordinary feat of research and intrepid historical navigation, Carl A. Brasseaux and Keith P. Fontenot serve as guides through the labyrinthian and often harrowing world of Louisiana bayou s
An illustrated history of America's first transportation network, Canals describes the heyday of American canals, their development, and the varied structures they engendered, from locks and lockhous
Award-winning historian Zachary Karabell tells the epic story of the greatest engineering feat of the nineteenth century--the building of the Suez Canal-- and shows how it changed the world.The dream
With the founding of his Patowmack Company in 1785, George Washington first hoped to make the Potomac River a viable route to America's West. The skirting canals the company constructed around the Gre
LaRosa (history, Rhodes College, Memphis) and Mejia (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Botota) mark the centennial of Panama's separation from Colombia in 1903 with this collection of articles which a
One of the last operating coal-burning steamships in the world, the S.S. Badger provides travelers and their automobiles with what is now the only opportunity to ferry across Lake Michigan. Each summe
During World War II, with Allied merchant and navy ships under the threat of German U-boats, the eastern seaboard was on high alert. The Cape Cod Canal, a vital waterway for commercial and military tr
A history of Chicago as a freight-handling city begins in the seventeenth century with the transportation of goods by canoe to the end of the twentieth century which saw the city's decline as an impor
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has been responsible for creating and maintaining much of the area's transportation infrastructure. Doig (politics and public affairs, Princeton U.) pres
Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, schooner trade was a well-developed system of maritime transport for commodities such as grain, lumber, and iron. The schooner trade was as cri
Revered and reviled in almost equal amounts since its inception, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has been responsible for creating and maintaining much of New York and New Jersey's trans
Journalist and photographer Martin-Raget illuminates five different regattas and delves into the histories of over a dozen classic boats, recounting the lore and mystique of the regatta. He also detai
