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100 years on the river : the Chotin family and their boats / Jim Bradshaw.
- Title
- 100 years on the river : the Chotin family and their boats / Jim Bradshaw.
- Author
- Bradshaw, Jim
- Publication
- Lafayette, La. : Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2001.
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- Additional Authors
- University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Center for Louisiana Studies.
- Description
- vi, 207 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Louisiana life series ; no. 11
- Uniform Title
- Louisiana life series ; no. 11.
- Alternative Title
- One hundred years on the river : the Chotin family and their boats
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographies references (pages 184-207).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Includes bibliographies references (p. 184-207).
- Beginnings in the bayou country -- Acadian connections -- The Chotins of Brashear City -- The meeting place of rail and water -- South Louisiana steamboats -- Captain John Newton Pharr -- First Chotin boats -- Disaster at Paducah -- Captian Scott learns the trade -- Marriage with Exxon -- From steam to diesel -- Industry growth -- Expanding the fleet -- Rollin' on the river -- Chotin innovations lead the industry -- Changing times -- Fun on the water -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1: Genealogical notes -- Appendix 2: Chotin boats -- Appendix 3: Some early steamboats in south Louisiana.
- ISBN
- 1887366431
- LCCN
- ^^2001132985
- OCLC
- 47936002
- SCSB-12157862
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library