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...
