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1. S.C. Gilfillan,
Inventing the Ship
, page 73.
2. Ibid., page 74.
3. Fulton letter to Livingston dated June 13, 1802, Clermont State Historic Park . Quoted in Cynthia Owen Philip,
Robert Fulton, A Biography
, page 131.
4. Kirkpatrick Sale,
The Fire of His Genius
, pages 87–88.
5. James Flexner,
Steamboats Come True: American Inventors in Action
, pages 291–292.
6. Ibid., page 119.
7.
American Citizen
, August 17, 1807. Quoted in Philip, page 199.
8. From the account that appears on pages 202–203 of
Robert Fulton and the
Clermont (New York : Century, 1909), by Alice Crary Sutcliffe, Fulton’s great-granddaughter.
9. Philip, page 202.
1. Lydia years later wrote a letter to E.W. Gould recounting her experiences on the voyage. Part of the letter is reprinted in Gould’s book,
Gould’s History of River Navigation
, pages 87–89.
2. Gould, page 88.
3. Ibid., page 89.
4. Ibid., page 97.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid., pages 88–89.
7. Ibid., page 84.
8. Henry Howe,
The Great West
, page 241.
9. Gould, pages 98–99.
1. Herbert Quick and Edward Quick,
Mississippi Steamboatin’,
page 89. Other sources vary.
2. Quoted in Florence L. Dorsey,
Master of the Mississippi
, page 111.
3. Quoted in Adam I. Kane,
The Western River Steamboat
, page 50.
4. Quick and Quick, page 92.
5. Dorsey, page 128.
6. Samuel Treat, “Political Portraits With Pen and Pencil: Henry Miller Shreve,”
The United States Magazine and Democratic Review
volume 22, 1848.
7. Quoted in Dorsey, page 138.
1. Fred Erving Dayton,
Steamboat Days
, page 92.
2. Ibid., pages 93–94.
3. Ibid., page 108.
4. Quick and Quick, pages 170–171.
5. Erick F. Haites, James Mak, and Gary M. Walton,
Western River Transportation, 1810–1860
, page 158.
6. Quick and Quick, pages 175–177.
7. Ibid., pages 175–176.
8. Dayton, page 349.
1. Twain, page 2 18.
2. Ibid., page 222.
3. B.A. Botkin,
A Treasury of Mississippi Folklore
, page 334. From “Steamboats at Louisville and on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers,” by Arthur E. Hopkins,
The Filson Club History Quarterly
17, no. 3 ( July 1943), pages 146–148.
4. George Byron Merrick,
Old Times on the Upper Mississippi: The Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot from 1854 to 1863
(St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1987), page 152.
5. Quoted from an account written by Frederick Law Olmsted around 1856. Published in Fred Erving Davis,
Steamboat Days
, page 347.
6. Quick and Quick, page 254.
7. Ibid., page 128.
8. Merrick, pages 156–157.
9. John Morris,
Wanderings of a Vagabond
(New York : self-published, 1873), pages 422– 425.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid., pages 140–141.
14. Devol, pages 177–178. 9. The number of victims of the
Titanic
, which sank in the north Atlantic on April 15, 1912, is also in dispute, the estimates ranging from 1,490 to 1,523.
1. All these statistics are from Thomas C. Buchanan’s
Black Life on the Mississippi
, page 10.
2. Quick and Quick, pages 235–236.
3. Buchanan, page 57.
4. Ibid.
5. Frederick Law Olmsted,
Cotton Kingdom
, page 274.
6. Twain, page 72.
7. Buchanan, page 71.
8. Merrick, page 128.
9. Ibid., page 135.
10. Ibid., page 134.
11. Dayton, page 343.
1. Gould, page 63 1.
2. Quick and Quick, pages 166–167.
3. Merrick, page 72.
4. Ibid., page 74.
5. Gould, pages 682–683.
6. Ray Samuel, Leonard V. Huber, and Warren C. Ogden,
Tales of the Mississippi
, pages 189–190.
7. Ibid., page 190.
8. Ibid., page 191.
9. Merrick, pages 68–69.
10. Quick and Quick, page 194.
11. Ibid., page 190.
12. Ibid., pages 185–186.
13. Merrick, page 90.
14. Twain, page 160.
15. Merrick, page 57.
1. Samuel, Huber and Ogden, page 145.
2. Ralph K. Andrist,
Steamboats on the Mississippi
, page 119.
3. Another source says the ship was named the
Trenton
.
4. Gould, page 459.
5. Botkin, pages 294–295.
6. Ibid., pages 124–125.
7. Samuel, Huber and Ogden, pages 123–124.
8. Jerry O. Potter,
The Sultana Tragedy
, page 68.
1.
Picayune
, July 6, 1870, page 2. 2.
St. Louis Republican
, July 3, 1870, page
1 .
3.
Picayune
, July 6, 1870, page 2. 4. Ibid., July 3, 1870, page 1.
5. Ibid., July 6, 1870.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid., July 3, 1870, page 1.
10.
St. Louis Republican
, July 4, 1870, page 1.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14.
Picayune
, July 4, 1870, page 1.
15. Alfred Pirtle article in the
Louisville Courier-Journal
, undated clip in New York Public Library Science and Technology section.
16.
Picayune
, July 5, 1870.
17. Ibid.
1.
St. Louis Republican
, July 6, 1870.
2. John Wiest in interview with Alfred Pirtle,
Louisville Courier-Journal
, undated clip in New York Public Library Science and Technology section.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
1. From the
St. Louis Democrat
, reprinted in the New Orleans
Daily Picayune
, July 9, 1870, page 1.
2.
Picayune
, July 6, 1870, page 1.
3. Ibid., July 9, 1870, page 1.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6.
St. Louis Republican
, July 6, 1870.
7. The names of the note’s signatories, in the order in which they signed: S.H. Parsiot, A.C. McKeen, Mrs. A.C. McKeen, Miss Maggie McKeen, Francis Shuber, Mrs. F. Shuber, Miss A. Shuber, Mrs. Barry, F. Lonsdale, E.P. Johnson, Edward S. Levy, L.M.
Levy, R.W. Doyle, John Kours, W.L. Calhoun, C. Holmes, Lytle Rowan, J.W. Dougherty, A.L. Long, Albert G. Eberman, J. Kain, Thos. Skinner, J.R. Scanlan, E.M. Jones, John Crozier, J.N. Ryley, G. Williams, R. Frazier, M. Martin, J. Shurad, Alex Warwick of New York.
8. Manly Wade Wellman,
Fastest on the River
, page 131.
9.
St. Louis Republican
, July 6, 1870. 10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. The interview was reprinted in the
Picayune
, July 9, 1870.
13. Editorial quoted in Wellman, page 136.
14. Details of the banquet and quotes of the speakers are from the
St. Louis Republican
, July 6, 1870.
1. Gould, page 725.
2. Quoted in Wellman, page 174.
3. Ibid.
4. Gould, pages 586–587.
5. Twain, pages 322–323.
6. Ibid., page 135.
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