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Presents controversies about building the Panama Canal and offers first-person narratives from people who lived through or were impacted by this event.

Discusses the development and uses of different means of transportation along the great network of rivers in early America.

Describes the Supreme Court case concerning the steamboat monopoly between New York State and New Jersey, which established the right of Congress to regulate interstate commerce.

Brief stories about famous persons and events intimately connected with the Mississippi River furing the nineteenth century.

Describes the designing, construction, and operation of an imaginary nineteenth-century canal, based upon similar histories of real canals.

William Least Heat-Moon provides an account of his experiences during a five-thousand mile journey across America by boat.

A history of life on the river in the United States, particularly on the Mississippi, when rivermen, by their work, made possible exploration, settlement, and travel not otherwise possible.

Studies how the westward expansion of the United States was facilitated by the use of the country's many waterways, describing the different types of boats pioneers used to make their journeys, and discussing some of the reasons people were determined to go west.