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 … 307. — Explosion of the Mississippi River steamboat Brilliant, at Bayou Goula, in 1851. More than a hundred lost their lives. James Lloyd, in his Stearnboat Directory and Disasters on the Western Waters, ascribes the Brilliant calamity to the common habit of using resin as fuel, in order to produce…
Transportation -- United States -- History · Frontier and pioneer life -- United States
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