Building The Panama Canal
Presents controversies about building the Panama Canal and offers first-person narratives from people who lived through or were impacted by this event.
972.87
year: 2012
copies: 4
call number/section: 972.87
lexile:
subjects: inland navigation [X], transportation, waterways, hydraulic structures, civil engineering, panama canal (panama), canal zone
Early River Travel
Discusses the development and uses of different means of transportation along the great network of rivers in early America.
386
year: 1993
copies: 4
call number/section: 386
lexile:
Gibbons V. Ogden
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.
343.73
year: 1999
copies: 9
call number/section: 343.73
lexile:
subjects: gibbons, thomas, ogden, aaron, livingston, robert r., fulton, robert, interstate commerce, constitutional history, inland navigation [X], trials
Pioneers On Early Waterways, Davy Crockett To Mark Twain
Brief stories about famous persons and events intimately connected with the Mississippi River furing the nineteenth century.
386
year: 1980
copies: 2
call number/section: 386
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River And Canal
Describes the designing, construction, and operation of an imaginary nineteenth-century canal, based upon similar histories of real canals.
627
year: 1986
copies: 2
call number/section: 627
lexile:
River Horse
William Least Heat-Moon provides an account of his experiences during a five-thousand mile journey across America by boat.
917.3
year: 1999
copies: 2
call number/section: 917.3
lexile: 1380
subjects: heat moon, william least, inland navigation [X], boats and boating, dories (boats), united states
Rivermen
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.
978
year: 1990
copies: 1
call number/section: 978
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West By Waterway
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.
386
year: 1995
copies: 6
call number/section: 386
lexile: 1220
subjects: inland navigation [X], inland water transportation, frontier and pioneer life, united states