Summary: At the start of World War I, German imperial troops burn down a mission in Africa. The mission's clergyman was so overtaken with disappointment that he passes away. Shortly after his well-educated, snooty sister Rose buries her brother, she must leave on the only available transport, the 'African Queen' steamboat. The boat is manned by the ill-mannered bachelor, Charlie. Together they embark on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE AFRCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD AFRDollarhide, William
Summary: "The Great Roads of 1840. Motivated by the need for clear, readable maps, this new American Migration Routes: Part II features descriptions of the same travel routes as Henry S. Tanner's 1840 American Traveller; but adds all new maps for each of the forty-five travel hub cities from the 1840 guidebook. Modern Highway Maps. The trace of an 1840 travel route is emphasized on a current road map....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Family Roots Publishing Company 2022
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: 304.873 DOLSummary: A man travels the Mississippi on a steamboat, making money to hire a lawyer to clear his nephew's name; upholding the law in a small southern town, Judge Billy Priest also plays matchmaker for his nephew; a country doctor upsets his small town when he has an affair with a widow; a young man's efforts to become a hero are thwarted when he joins the Armed Forces but is posted in his home town;...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY JOHScarry, Richard
Summary: "Detectives Sam Cat and Dudley Pig have been invited to a shipboard wedding. It sounds like fun, but when a jewel thief slips aboard in the crowd, trouble follows. Good thing Sam and Dudley are at the party to help catch the thief!"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 386.2243 MILCooper, Anderson
Summary: Anderson Cooper chronicles the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty--his mother's family--the Vanderbilts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US CooperChavez, Art.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcadia Pub. 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 386.6 CHASavage, Les.
Summary: Just a few years before the War of 1812, Natchez-Under-the-Hill rang with the cries of hawkers and harlots, the curses of brawling river boatmen and the clank of slave chains. It was a lusty and turbulent time on the mighty Mississippi. Owen Naylor and Charlotte Dumaine are united in their effort to put steam power on the river, an idea that threatens the traditional reign of the keelboats....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SAVConway, Martha
Summary: "Set aboard a nineteenth century riverboat theater, this is the moving, page-turning story of a charmingly frank and naive seamstress who is blackmailed into saving Ranaways on the Underground Railroad, jeopardizing her freedom, her livelihood, and a new love. It's 1838, and May Bedloe works as a seamstress for her cousin, the famous actress Comfort Vertue--until their steamboat sinks on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONHart, Alison
Summary: In 1852, Emma, her pregnant mother and her pony board the steamboat Sally May to meet her father in St. Joseph, Missouri, but when the ship suddenly explodes in a fiery blaze, Emma and all onboard must fight for their survival in the icy waters of the Missouri River.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Fiction Hart 2010Thompson, Mark L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1991
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 386.22 THOBraun, Eric
Summary: "The date is April 27, 1865. You are crammed onboard the steamboat Sultana with more than 2,000 passengers. Many of them are soldiers heading home after the Civil War. You're cruising on the Mississippi River when a massive explosion rips through the ship. Do you dive into the water to save yourself or stay onboard to help the survivors? Will you try to swim for shore or wait for help to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BRAHuffman, Alan.
Contents: Midstream, April 27, 1865 -- Getting there -- War -- The raids -- Somewhere, the little brother -- Captured -- Cahaba -- Andersonville -- Going off alone -- Release -- Sold up the river -- The disaster -- In a dead man's pocket -- The beginning of the end -- Home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.771 HUFSummary: Traces the history of the Delta Queen, from its launch in California in 1926 through the present, with emphasis on its Ohio River travels, its remarkable voyage from San Francisco to Cincinnati and the "Save the Queen" battle in Congress of the late 1960s.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sentimental Productions 1988
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD UNSMcGinty, Brian
Summary: The untold story of how one sensational trial propelled a self-taught lawyer and a future president into the national spotlight.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.6 MCGMcGinty, Brian.
Summary: Before becoming president, Abraham Lincoln successfully argued a trial pitting railroad vs. steamboat. In the course of this untold story, listeners follow the creation of a transnational railroad while witnessing the future president's ascension to the national stage.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.6 MCGSummary: The nation is in love with progress, and innovations include steamboats, the Erie Canal, and the first railroads. The Industrial Revolution brings Americans new leisure and personal freedom - but there is a dark side to the story for factory workers and women. Reformers begin to rail against horrendous conditions, while people like Sojourner Truth and Elizabeth Cady Stanton rally for equal rights.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2002