Mr. Roosevelt's Steamboat

By Mary Helen Dohan

Book Overview

Here, in a story of high adventure and unlikely romance, is an authoritative account of the first steamboat voyage on the Mississippi river. This hazardous three-month's long voyage changed the course of history. It is also the story of two fascinating people, Nicholas Roosevelt and his adventurous young wife, Lyola Latrobe, who together challenged the Mississippi & and won.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0396079830
• ISBN13: 9780396079835
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: Dodd Mead
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.