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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Frederick Way Jr. , Joseph W. Rutter , Joseph W. RutterPublisher: Ohio University Press Imprint: Ohio University Press Edition: 2nd Revised edition Dimensions: Width: 21.60cm , Height: 4.10cm , Length: 27.90cm Weight: 1.606kg ISBN: 9780821411063ISBN 10: 0821411063 Pages: 638 Publication Date: 15 February 1995 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsReviewsHistory scholars, steamboat researchers, genealogists and countless others will rejoice in the long-awaited ... revision of Way's Packet Directory. This is the most comprehensive treatment yet attempted of 19th- and 20th-century steamboats. <br><br> The Courier-Journal This is not a reading book, but rather a reference work. Even so, the marvelous introduction, the lengthy captions in the photo collection, and the various letters and special notes in the boat bios are captivating and enlightening. - Seaways' Ships in Scale magazine The 620-page book attempts to list the history of every packet that traveled the Mississippi River system from 1848 to the present. … The book is a 69-year labor of love. … Fred Way is the world's foremost authority on river life. - The Marietta Times History scholars, steamboat researchers, genealogists and countless others will rejoice in the long-awaited … revision of Way's Packet Directory. This is the most comprehensive treatment yet attempted of 19th- and 20th-century steamboats. - The Courier-Journal This is not a reading book, but rather a reference work. Even so, the marvelous introduction, the lengthy captions in the photo collection, and the various letters and special notes in the boat bios are captivating and enlightening. Seaways' Ships in Scale magazine The 620-page book attempts to list the history of every packet that traveled the Mississippi River system from 1848 to the present. ... The book is a 69-year labor of love. ... Fred Way is the world's foremost authority on river life. The Marietta Times History scholars, steamboat researchers, genealogists and countless others will rejoice in the long-awaited ... revision of Way's Packet Directory. This is the most comprehensive treatment yet attempted of 19th- and 20th-century steamboats. The Courier-Journal Author InformationCaptain Frederick Way, Jr., was born in Sewickley, Pennsylvania, in 1902, and grew up in the adjacent village of Edgeworth near the Ohio River. Early on, he became fascinated with steamboats, and particularly with the freight-passenger packets still prominent on the river in the early 1900s. While he was attending the University of Cincinnati, the “call of the river” caused Fred Way to leave after one year to take up the life of a riverman, and from 1925 until 1932 he operated the packet Betsy Ann between Pittsburgh and Cincinnati, becoming a licensed pilot and master. In the early months of the Great Depression, he lost his boat, and shortly after he began to write the story of the seven-year struggle to operate a packetboat in Log of the Betsy Ann, the first of his many publications. Captain Way was also the originator and publisher for thirty-two years of the Inland River Record, an annual compilation of boats operating on inland waters. And in 1983 he compiled Way’s Packet Directory, 1848–1983: Passenger Steamboats of the Mississippi River System since the Advent of Photography in Mid-Continent America (Ohio University Press), one of the seven books he wrote on American rivers and the history of steamboats and their crews, and subsequently revised with a new foreword by Joseph W. Rutter. From 1941 until his death, Captain Way was president of the Sons & Daughters of Pioneer Rivermen, an ongoing association dedicated to preserving the history of Western rivers. Captain Way died at his home in Marietta, Ohio, in October 1992. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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