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Mr. Roosevelt's Steamboat

The First Steamboat to Travel the Mississippi

By: Mary Helen Dohan

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Mr. Roosevelt's Steamboat

The First Steamboat to Travel the Mississippi

By: Mary Helen Dohan

The true story of a family’s daring four-month Mississippi River journey—a tale of danger, childbirth, and a massive earthquake that “reads like a novel” (Publishers Weekly). In 1811, the steamboat New Orleans was the first to travel the Mississippi River in a four-month journey between Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and New Orleans, Louisiana. The only people brave enough to embark upon the journey were Nicholas Roosevelt; his pregnant wife, Lydia Latrobe; and their young daughter. During the course of the trip, the brilliant but reckless Roosevelt led his family through navigational perils, hostile Indians, and fire aboard. The small, fire-engine-powered steamboat saw not only the birth of Roosevelt and Latrobe’s second child, but also the greatest earthquake ever to strike the eastern United States. That cataclysmic event, described in the book from firsthand accounts, destroyed villages, swallowed islands, and reversed the course of the Mississippi River. Mr. Roosevelt’s Steamboat is an authoritative account of a twenty-five-hundred-mile voyage that significantly contributed to America’s transportation revolution. The dynamic main characters share tender romance and great courage. Their incredible trip down the Mississippi assured the future of steam navigation—and the progress of the great westward movement. “A vivid, fast-moving story.” —New Orleans Times-Picayune “In a class by itself . . . Surges with excitement.” —Louisiana History “Well-researched, vividly told.” —Waterways Journal “Intriguing romance, [a] taut, suspense-filled story, cataclysmic drama . . . A whale of a book.” —Christian Herald

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Pelican Publishing

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1455609064

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A Complex and Singular Person

Selected Writings

By: Mary Helen Dohan

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A Complex and Singular Person

Selected Writings

By: Mary Helen Dohan

This book contains a selection of Mary Helens shorter writings, some published but many unpublished, which provide a window into her thoughts and ideas, her successes and frustrations, and her own and her familys history. Taken together, they paint a vivid portrait of this complex and singular person.

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Xlibris Corporation

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151447347X

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9781514473474

Mr. Roosevelt's Steamboat

The First Steamboat to Travel the Mississippi

By: Mary Helen Dohan

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The First Steamboat to Travel the Mississippi

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Mr. Roosevelt's Steamboat

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Mr. Roosevelt's Steamboat

By: Mary Helen Dohan

Documents the 1811 voyage of the first steamboat to travel from Pittsburgh to New Orleans, describing the Roosevelts' experiences with the wilderness, navigational perils, Indians, a devastating earthquake, and more

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Dodd Mead

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0396079830

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9780396079835

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