A history of travel in America : showing the development of travel and transportation from the crude methods of the canoe and the dog-sled to the highly organized railway systems of the present, together with a narrative of the human experiences and changing social conditions that accompanied this economic conquest of the continent (1915)
A HISTORY OF TRAVEL IN AMERICA lature a fifth law in which their right to demand for¬ feiture of any usurping steamboat was reaffirmed in more specific terms. By the grant of 1811 Livingston and Fulton were given the same remedy for the seizure of a rival craft as they would have possessed if the… … 116. — The Ohio and Mi<ssis«inpi River steamboat Belyi dere. A picture used for years in England, Germany and elsewhere in Europe to illustrate the flimsy and dangerous construction of many western river boats. The Belyidere was built at the town of Portsmouth, Ohio, in 1825, escaped all dangers…
Transportation -- United States -- History · Frontier and pioneer life -- United States
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