Browsing by Author "Kennedy, Carolyn"
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Kennedy, Carolyn (2019-02-28)Steam-propelled vessels transformed North American life in the nineteenth century, but many aspects of the boats still elude us, particularly for the dynamic decades of experimentation and adaptation before 1850. Fortunately, ...
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Kennedy, Carolyn (2015-08-06)Steamboats became commercially viable in the early nineteenth century, and by the 1830s were arguably the most popular form of long-distance travel around North America, especially on inland waterways like Lake Champlain. ...