Tidewater by Steamboat: A Saga of the Chesapeake - Softcover

Holly, Professor David C.

 
9780801865305: Tidewater by Steamboat: A Saga of the Chesapeake
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0801865301 ISBN 13: 9780801865305
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000

Synopsis

"The name Weems, and the Weems line," writes David C. Holly, "symbolized nearly the entire epoch of the steamboat on the Chesapeake." The Weems line began in Baltimore in 1819, as steamboats first appeared on the Chesapeake and its rivers. It was sold to the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1905, at the height of the steamboat's "Golden Age," though its boats continued to serve the Bay until the 1930s. Illustrated with maps, drawings, and rare photographs, Tidewater by Steamboat is the vivid portrait of life on the Patuxent, the Potomac, and the Rappahannock, where Weems boats sailed and the course of the American republic was set.

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About the Author

David C. Holly served as a naval officer in World War II and the Korean War before teaching government and foreign affairs at American University and Hampden-Sydney College. His published work includes Exodus 1947 and Steamboat on the Chesapeake.

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Publisher
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date
2000
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0801865301
ISBN 13 
9780801865305
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
314

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