@book{218, keywords = {flatboats, keelboats, inventors, James O'Hara (1752-1819), Nicholas Roosevelt (1767-1854), Lydia Latrobe (1791-1878), Robert Fulton (1765-1815), steamboats}, author = {Lucien Hubbard}, title = {Rivers to the Sea: An American Story}, abstract = {A novelized biography of inventor Nicholas Roosevelt, who built the first steamboat on the western waters of the United States.}, year = {1942}, pages = {313 p.}, publisher = {Simon and Schuster}, address = {New York}, note = {Settings are referred to by their historical names as follows: North Side is Allegheny City; Mt. Washington is Coal Hill.}, language = {English}, }