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Pacific Steam Boats from sidewheeler to motor ferry pictorial history West Coast
Pacific Steam Boats from sidewheeler to motor ferry. A vivid pictorial history of the West Coasts boats and boatmen by Gordon Newell & Joe Williamson.
Hard Cover with dust jacket
Copyright MCMLVIII 1957
200 pages
Indexed
By the authors of PACIFIC TUGBOATS
GORDON NEWELL and JOE WILLIAMSON
The running fight between side-wheelers GEORGE E. STARR and ANDERSON when, with black smoke billowing out of their tall stacks, they raced to the wharves to snatch each other's passengers . . . the days when the TELEPHONE paddled smartly up the Columbia River . . . when the IRIQUOIS felt the great longing to see the world, left her Great Lakes home and steamed around the Horn to Puget Sound.
This is the kind of virile stuff PACIFIC STEAMBOATS adds to maritime lore--a fitting companion piece to theNewell andWilliamsonforerunner, PACIFIC TUGBOATS. At once a comprehensive catalog of Pacific Coast steam-propelled ships, it is also a chronicle of their plain and fancy doings. Not only do the authors trace the beginnings of inland navigation in these waters but they give many case histories and fascinating tales of famous, long-forgotten ships with character sketches of the men who strode their decks.
The pages are loaded to the hatch covers with photographs of the quaint, the crude, the graceful beauties of bay and inlet. The shapes and classic lines of hundreds ring memory's bell . . . the LOT WHITCOMB, BEAVER, MAJOR TOMPKINS, ALIDA, FLYER, JENNIE CLARK, ZEPHYR, IDAHO--side and stern wheelers, propeller boats, work boats, excursion boats, ferry boats.
As an added fillip to this salty fare is a prize collectionof steamboat memorabilia - reproductions of gaudy and alluring newspaper advertisements of wondrous voyages, tickets, passes, schedules.THIS WAS STEAMBOATINGI
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