The Great American Steamboat Race

by Benton Rain Patterson

Robert E. Lee 1, 2, 4, 6–8, 11, 13–18, 35–47,

  11 5, 167–194

  Roosevelt, Lydia Latrobe 65–76

  Roosevelt, Nicholas J. 51, 56, 65–76, 79 roustabouts 120–121, 124, 168

  St. Genevieve, Mo. 32, 182

  St. Louis, Mo. 4, 6–7, 13, 15, 32–34, 74–

  79, 101–102, 104, 117, 129, 154, 161, 176–

  178, 180–181, 183, 185–192, 194–195 St. Louis Democrat 183, 185–186, 188 St. Louis Republican 3, 41–43, 88, 168,

  174–175, 178–179, 181, 187

  St. Mary’s Market 18, 35, 47, 174

  Schoolcraft, Henry R. 23–24

  Scott, Alex 129

  Shreve, Henry Miller 78–87, 147

  slaves 109, 117–118

  Smyth, A.W. 109, 117–118

  snags 154

  soundings 121–123

  statistics, steamboat 93–97

  Stevens, John 51, 65, 91

  stewards 125–127, 140–142

  Sultana 159–166, 173

  Teche 145

  Thompson Dean 171

  Tobin, John W. 10, 168

  Trollope, Frances 29

  Vicksburg, Miss. 30, 46–47, 148, 160–161,

  167

  waiters 127

  Warmoth, Henry C. 16, 35–38, 168 Washington 83–87, 147

  water, drinking 106

  Watt, James 50–51, 54, 60

  Wiest, John 39–40, 176, 180–181

  Table of Contents

  Chapter Notes

  Introduction 1

  1•The Start 3

  2 • The Course 19

  3 • The Early Going 35

  4 • The Pioneers 49

  5 • A Different Kind of Boat 65

  6 • Captain Shreve’s Design 77

  7 • The Proliferation 89

  8 • The Sweet Life on the Mississippi 101

  9 • The Hard-Working Life 117