Research Catalog

Title

Up the river : steam navigation above Carquinez Strait / David Hull, editor.

Publication

San Francisco : Book Club of California, 2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hall, David, 1943-
• Book Club of California
• Book Club of California, publisher.
• Arion Press printer.
• Roswell Bookbinding binder.
• Mohawk Paper Mills (Cohoes, N.Y.) papermaker.

Description

58 p. : ill. (some col.) , maps; 22 x 26 cm.

Series Statement

The keepsake for 2002 / the Book Club of California

Uniform Title

Keepsake series (Book Club of California) 2002.

Subject

• Steam-navigation > California > Carquinez Strait > History
• Paddle steamers > California > Carquinez Strait > History
• River boats > California
• Inland navigation > California
• River boats > California > Carquinez Strait > History
• Inland navigation > California > Carquinez Strait > History

Genre/Form

• History
• Typefaces (Type evidence) – Minion.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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.

OCLC

• 53864584
• SCSB-12030343

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library