TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sledge,John S.
TI  - The Mobile River
SN  - 9781611174861
AV  - F332.M67 S53 2015 
U1  - 976.1/22 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Columbia
PB  - University of South Carolina Press
KW  - Mobile River (Ala.) -- History
KW  - Mobile River (Ala.) -- Description and travel
KW  - Mobile River Region (Ala.) -- History, Local
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - A historical saga of the river and the colorful characters that inhabit its shores and basin
UR  - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=2054905
ER  -