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Water Trails West pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024
America s waterways played a key role in the exploration and settle.
ment of the West. Travel was so difficult during our country s first
century that New York was closer to Europe by sea than to the
Appalachians by land. From the first explorations by canoe to the
decline of the steamboat era, this illustrated history of the rivers,
lakes, and canals that shaped the course of America s destiny recap-
tures the majesty of each region s major water highways.
Todhunter Ballard writes of the building of the Erie Canal; Don Holm
tells of the Lewis and Clark exploration of the Northwest by flatboat
and canoe; Robert Smith evokes the grandeur of the "Big Muddy,"
the Mississippi, and its role in developing the heartland; Elmer
Kelton describes the operation of steamboats on Texas rivers; C. L.
Sonnichsen relates the hair-raising adventures of steamers on the
Colorado; and Archie Satterfield captures the Klondike madness of
the stampede up the Yukon River.
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Water Trails West pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024