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Up the river : steam navigation above Carquinez Strait
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- Creator
- David Hull, editor
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- San Francisco : Book Club of California, 2003
- Physical Details
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- 58 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 22 x 26 cm
- OCLC
- ocm53864584
- "Up the river was designed and produced by the Arion Press in San Francisco. The type is digitally composed Minion. This keepsake was printed by offset lithography on Mohawk Superfine at Charles Graphics, San Francisco, and bound by Roswell Bookbinding of Phoenix, Arizona. The edition is limited to 1,000 copies"--Colophon.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Sidewheel steamships on the Strait : the Pacific Mail Steamship Company's depot at Benicia, 1850-1869 / James P. Delgado -- The wine ship [the Angelo Petri] / William Kooiman -- The gold boat of Sacramento [the Antelope] / Richard H. Dillon -- The Linda : first steamship to ascend the Feather and Yuba Rivers / Gary F. Kurutz -- Dover : the last sternwheel steamer upriver / Otis Oldfield -- Steamboats : on the American River? / Norman L. Wilson -- Above the head of navigation : steaming south to Fresno and on Tulare Lake / Duncan S. Harvey -- The steamer with two lives / Carl Nolte -- Comfort and luxury afloat / Stan Garvey -- Boats flaming like torches / James E. Henley -- The first steamer to navigate San Francisco Bay / John Haskell Kemble -- "Another unfortunate 'accident' on the River" / Robert J. Chandler