[PDF.46dh] The Tombigbee River Steamboats: Rollodores, Dead Heads, and Side-Wheelers

The Tombigbee River Steamboats: Rollodores, Dead Heads, and Side-Wheelers

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 | #1592917 in Books |  The History Press |  2010-07-30 |  2010-07-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.31 x6.00l,.85 | File type: PDF | 224 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Delightful Account of Steamboats on a Lesser-Known Waterway|By Gene C. Armistead|The title is a bit misleading since the book is really about steamboats on the upper Tombigbee and not the entire river. The subtitles imply more in-depth coverage of crews and river hazards than actually is contained. AT places there are repititious statements that are distracting. Nevertheless, t|About the Author|Rufus Ward has been active in the fields of history and historic preservation for more than thirty-five years. He divides his time between lectures on history-related topics and consulting on cultural projects. He also writes a weekly history co

The Tombigbee River flows through the history of Alabama and Mississippi, connecting the Black Prairie cotton belt of northeast Mississippi and west Alabama to Mobile and the Gulf of Mexico. In the early 1800s, it became the regional artery of commerce and trade, with steamboats carrying cotton to the port of Mobile and then returning upriver with farm supplies and consumer goods. Today, the "rollodores," who rolled cotton bales down slides to the decks of boats; the sun...

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