Steamboat Days by Fred Erving Dayton, 1925

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STEAMBOAT DAYS

by Fred Erving Dayton (1880 - )
Illustrated by John Wolcott Adams

Published: New York, Frederick A. Stokes, 1925

"Steamboat Days," published in 1925, is a book about the history of steamboats. Available on this site are the chapters describing the early developments of steamboats and the history of steamboats in New York and on the Hudson River.

Steamboat Days

	Introduction
Chapter 1	Two Thousand Years of Steam
Chapter 2	Early Development of the Steamboat Early Development of the Steamboat in America Early Steamboat Progress in England Robert Fulton The Stevens Family
Chapter 3	The Beginning of Steamboat Commerce Early Long Island Sound Steamers The End of the Fulton-Livingston Monopoly
Chapter 4	Hudson River Steamboats Smaller Hudson River Boats of the 1830's The Famous Mary Powell The Famous Side-Wheeler St. John Organization of the Citizens' Line Steamboats of Recent Times Famous Old Steamboats
Chapter 19	New York's Early Domination of Ship and Engine Building The Novelty Works Phoenix Foundry Morgan Iron Works John Roach's Etna Iron Works West Point Foundry The Ship Builders of New York William H. Webb Jacob A. Westervelt Other Early Shipbuilders The Famous Collyer Family

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