The first Mississippi steamboat was a packet, the "New Orleans," a sidewheeler built at Pittsburgh in 1811, designed for the New Orleans-Natchez trade. Packets dominated during the first forty years of steam, providing the quickest passenger transportation throughout mid-continent America. The packets remained fairly numerous even into the first two decades of the twentieth century when old age or calamity overtook them. By the 1930s, the flock was severely depleted, and today the packet is extinct. Containing almost 6,000 entries, "Way s Packet Directory" includes a majority of...
The first Mississippi steamboat was a packet, the "New Orleans," a sidewheeler built at Pittsburgh in 1811, designed for the New Orleans-Natchez trade...
After the initial release in 1983 of Way s Packet Directory, 1848 1983, the demand was enormous for a similar treatment of the steam towboats that once populated the Mississippi River System. Captain Frederick Way, Jr., aided by Joseph W. Rutter, gathered together this wealth of information concerning steamboats that shoved river barges laden with coal, petroleum products, chemicals, sand, gravel, and similar bulk commodities from the headwaters of the Ohio River to the jetties of the Mississippi. The steam towboats that performed these services have completely disappeared from the scene,...
After the initial release in 1983 of Way s Packet Directory, 1848 1983, the demand was enormous for a similar treatment of the steam towboats that onc...
