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The Mobile River.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (476 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781611174861
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Mobile RiverDDC classification:
  • 976.1/22
LOC classification:
  • F332.M67 S53 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: Downriver with Cap'n Joe -- Introduction: "A fine, large river" -- Part 1. Coming Ahead -- 1. Indian Stream to Entrada Española -- 2. Colonial Days and Ways -- 3. American Dawn -- 4. Calliope Song -- 5. Rebel River -- 6. Rebel Defeat -- 7. "Mobile Harbor: What shall we do with it?" -- 8. Modern Port, Beleaguered River -- Part 2. Currents -- 9. "Everything down there's big enough to kill you" -- 10. Pleasure and Peril -- 11. Diverse Legacies -- Epilogue: Elegy for a Small Shipyard -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
Summary: A historical saga of the river and the colorful characters that inhabit its shores and basin.
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Intro -- Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: Downriver with Cap'n Joe -- Introduction: "A fine, large river" -- Part 1. Coming Ahead -- 1. Indian Stream to Entrada Española -- 2. Colonial Days and Ways -- 3. American Dawn -- 4. Calliope Song -- 5. Rebel River -- 6. Rebel Defeat -- 7. "Mobile Harbor: What shall we do with it?" -- 8. Modern Port, Beleaguered River -- Part 2. Currents -- 9. "Everything down there's big enough to kill you" -- 10. Pleasure and Peril -- 11. Diverse Legacies -- Epilogue: Elegy for a Small Shipyard -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

A historical saga of the river and the colorful characters that inhabit its shores and basin.

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