Pioneer Pilot: A Boys’ Story of the First Steamboat Voyage from Pittsburgh to New Orleans

Year of Publication
1947
Publication Type
Novel
Number of Pages or Episodes
298 p.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Bobbs-Merrill
City
Indianapolis and New York
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Abstract

Donald Menzies, 16, helps make the New Orleans the first steamboat to travel from Pittsburgh to New Orleans.

Author Biography

Edd W. [Winfield] Parks (1906-68), born in Newbern, Tennessee and educated at Harvard and Vanderbilt Universities, was a professor and writer. John D. Whiting (1882-1951), born in Jerusalem, was a notable member of the American Colony, a Christian community of Americans, Swedes, and others based in Jerusalem.

Time

1811

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