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Shantyboats and Roustabouts : The River Poor of St. Louis, 1875-1930 /
"Shantyboat dwellers and steamboat roustabouts formed an organic part of the cultural landscape of the Mississippi River bottoms during the rise of industrial America and the twilight of steamboat packets from 1875 to 1930. Nevertheless, both groups remain understudied by scholars of the era. M...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
[2023]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: A Peculiar Phase of American Character
- A Tranquil and Unhurried Life: The River People
- Wealth Is Not His God: Origins of St. Louis's Wharf Settlements
- The Roughest Life There Is: Roustabouts on the Levee
- The River Gives Up Its Dead Slowly: Seasons, Cycles, and the River's Fury
- The Pride of St. Louis: King of Little Oklahoma
- Ain't Got No Place to Lay My Haid: River Fiddlers, Raggers, and Roustabouts in Ragged
- Time
- The American Fondness for Humbug: Medicine Boats, Swamp Healers, and Showboats
- In the High Waters of Sin: Mission Boats and River Preachers
- Neither Pumpkin nor Paw-paw: Little Oklahoma's Sculling Champion of the World
- The Ruthless Advance of Civilization: Waterfront Evictions
- Gone Are the Old River Days: Floating Palaces, Steel Barges, and Vanishing Roustabouts
- Epilogue: In Some Far-Off Valhalla