The Tombigbee River Steamboats: Rollodores, Dead Heads and Side-Wheelers

The Tombigbee River Steamboats: Rollodores, Dead Heads and Side-Wheelers

Rufus Ward

Språken
FörlagThe History Press
ISBN9781614231219

The Tombigbee River flows through the history of Alabama and Mississippi, connecting the Black Prairie cotton belt of northeast Mississippi and west Alabama to Mobile and the Gulf of Mexico. In the early 1800s, it became the regional artery of commerce and trade, with steamboats carrying cotton to t