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Shire library volume no. 681
Publisher
Shire Publications
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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Paddle wheel riverboat, showboat, stern wheeler: In all its myriad forms, the steamboat revolutionized American travel in the 1800's taking millions of people inland and helping to settle and develop the vast territories beyond the original colonies. It was an era in which young boys dreamed of becoming steamboat pilots and Mark Twain immortalized the "floating palaces' that traveled up and down the Mississippi River. In this fascinating history,...
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When eleven-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt began to work on his father’s small boat ferrying supplies in New York Harbor at the beginning of the nineteenth century, no one could have imagined that one day he would, through ruthlessness, cunning, and a pathological desire for money, build two empires—one in shipping and another in railroads—that would make him the richest man in America. His staggering fortune was fought over by his heirs after...
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