The Material Culture of Steamboat Passengers

Download or read book The Material Culture of Steamboat Passengers written by Annalies Corbin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2000 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a material culture analysis of passengers' belongings found on the steamboats Bertrand and Arabia, which served nineteenth century emigrants traveling west on the Missouri river. The research utilizes documentary sources, photographs, and archaeological artifacts. The book is heavily descriptive and will be regarded as a reference manual for western artifacts and for steamboats that operated on the Missouri river.