In 1894 the Howards completed two major projects, the building of the Howard Mansion and the building of the steamboat City of Louisville, one of the largest and fastest steamboats of its day — 4 pages, soft cover

Price: $0.50

In Janurary of 1937,  the combination of continuous rainfall in the Ohio River watershed, along with the melting of snow in the mountains drove the level of the Ohio river increasingly higher. The river finally crested in Jeffersonville at 57.1 feet, far beyond what anyone had ever anticipated. Jeffersonville, like many towns along the Ohio, was completely flooded.

This book is an engaging personal account of that flood by Edmonds James Howard, great-grandson of the founder of the Howard shipbuilding dynasty and occupant of the Howard Mansion, the first floor of which was inundated by the relentless force of the Ohio river.

by Edmonds J. Howard — 18 pages, soft cover

Price: $3.00

During the 19th century, pine logs were lashed together to form floating rafts that traveled from Minnesota and Wisconsin down the Mississippi River to build the farms and towns of the virtually treeless lower Midwest. These huge log rafts were steered down the river by steamboat pilots whose skill and intimate knowledge of the river's many hazards were legendary. Charles Edward Russell, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, chronicles the history and river lore of seventy years of lumber rafting.

by Charles Edward Russell — 857 pages, soft cover

Price: $15.95

The Ohio River is not only a river of scenery and beauty, but also one of opportunity. It is a river of journey and exploration; a river of dreams, both personal and private; a river of commerce and enterprise. It is also a river of floods and destruction. Along the Ohio River: Cincinnati to Louisville journeys down this dynamic river. The authors have chosen to use privately published picture postcards of river and river community scenes as their medium source. Their selection of high quality postcard images show many riverfront scenes, from the cities along the way to excursion steamboats, river scenery, and the river at work.

by Roger Schrage and Donald Clare — 127 pages, soft cover

Price: $19.99

Commentary by Capt. Frederick Way Jr., Paintings by William H. Reed — An album of various riverboats, soft album cover

Price: $30.00

A dictionary of terms and phrases used in the Western Rivers towing industry, including slang and colorful expressions that are seldom heard "up the hill."

Edited by Capt. Jack Ross — 124 pages, soft cover

Price: $9.95

Awakening the Dawn is an interesting and readable fictionalized account of a struggle of conscience in the late 40's and early 50's among the citizens of Jeffersonville, Indiana that led to the racial integration of the town's public school system. The drive for integration in Jeffersonville is noteworthy in that it predates the the civil rights movement that was to sweep the nation a few years later. 

by Elmer L Harvey, 200 pages soft cover

Price: $10.00

by James V. Swift — 366 pages, hard cover

Price: $29.95

Published in 1909 by Captain Lewis C. Baird — hard cover

Price: $64.95

by Captain Lewis C. Baird — separate soft cover

Price $5.00

by Barbara Huffman — life and times of Capt. John L. and Claire E. Beatty 439 pages

Price: $26.95

by Alan Bates — an account of Capt. Bates' personal involvement with the Belle of Louisville ("the oldest operating sternwheel steamboat") as she was transformed from the Avalon to the Belle. Many illustrations, 152 pages, soft cover.

Price: $8.00

by James W. Knox — booklet, soft cover

Price: $1.00

by Catherine Reynolds King — 228 pages, soft cover

Price $16.95

Catfish and Calliopes is a story for ages nine through fifteen about a fifteen-year old boy growing up in a small town near the Ohio River. The year is 1916. Walt Carlisle is running away from home and a strict father. Walt finds himself working aboard the packet boat CITY of CINCINNATI, bound for Louisville, and later, on the beautiful sternwheeler QUEEN CITY. After still another great adventure aboard the GOLDENROD showboat, he returns to finish growing up in his home town, a wiser young man.

Much of Catfish and Calliopes is ficticious but the surroundings and the descriptions of boats and of historic happenings are real. And the story of Walt running away form home was real: he was the brother of the author.

by Mary Corse Kelley — , 144 pages, hardcover 

Price: $29.95

Originally conceived to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Columbus' discovery of America, the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 was one of the largest (633 acres) and most influential aggregations of human talent, energy and industry ever assembled. More than 27 million visitors entered the grounds to marvel at the exhibits and displays housed in some 200 buildings, including those of 79 foreign governments and 38 states.

The book becomes a building-by-building walking tour of the fair -imaginatively reconstructed with the help of 128 photographs and concise, fact-filled text.

by Stanley Appelbaum — 116 pages, soft cover

Price: $9.95

By Web Garrison — true stories of unusual happenings during the Civil War, 281 pages, soft cover

Price: $9.95

You will enjoy this fast-moving novel. Roy Williams, a novice deckhand on the mighty Steamer Oakdale, is trapped between implacable enemies and must somehow survive this feud during a voyage down the Ohio River. You will love the engaging characters and learn much about life on the river in a bygone age.

About the author: Captain Bates is a blend of the practical riverman and a hopeless romantic concerning the river and its boats. He served as mate on the fabulous Belle of Louisville. He is a widely recognized authority in his field of river history. He is the designer of the Natchez, the queen of the New Orleans harbor and at least thirty other excursion boats.

About the illustrator: If you know the song Gentle On My Mind you know something about Captain John Hartford, its composer. What you may not know is that he is also an expert illustrator and artist as well as a practicing riverman with pilots' license for hundreds of miles of the western rivers. In addition, Captain Hartford has written several books of poetry.

by Alan L. Bates, illustrated by John Hartford — 197 pages soft cover

Price: $16.00

For one brief moment in history, it was possible to slide down a muddy bank, board a steamboat, and travel anywhere within a 16,000-mile system of inland waterways known as the Western Rivers. They included the incomparable Mississippi, the scenic Ohio, the muddy Missouri and a score of lesser tributaries.

The steamboats carried freight by the hundreds of tons and passengers by the score. They stopped at well-known cities and towns and at hundreds of diminutive landings that no one had ever heard of .

In Come Hell or High Water, historian Michael Gillespie invites the reader to experience the challenge that was steamboating in the nineteenth century, as recorded firsthand by passengers, crew members and journalists.

By Michael Gillespie, 295 pages, soft cover

Price: $19.95

This is the story of the life and exploits of Captain Grant Marsh. Seen through the eyes of the Capt. Grant Marsh, who was one of the greatest river pilots to ever navigate the shoals and rapids of the Missouri river, known as the "big muddy," this retelling of the opening of the Northwest is one of the classic narratives about the American West.

In short, Capt. Marsh watched Jackson's sense of American Manifest Destiny unfold. He helped survey the upper reaches of the Missouri, he took his steamer to the shallows of Little Bighorn to return battle-weary soldiers home, and he watched as the region was transformed from a lonesome wilderness into what would become modern America.

by Joseph Mills Hanson — 458 pages, soft cover

Price: $12.95

by Bear Wallow — old fashioned recipes, various titles.

Price: $4.00

by Gail King and Susan Thurman — 65 pages, soft cover

Price: $8.50

by William H. Even — 112 pages, soft cover

Price: $15.00

by Myron Tassin (Editor) -- 96 pages, soft cover,

The majestic Delta Queen, transports enchanted passengers between her home port of Cincinnati and New Orleans with stops along the way. Included in these pages is a profusion of photographs of the Delta Queen at her elegant best, along with many rare early photographs of the stately vessels that preceded her on the timeless Mississippi River.

Price: $14.95

by C. Eugene Miller, Ph.D & Forrest F. Steinlage L.S. — 118 pages, hard cover

Price: $13.95

by Kathy Thomas — stories remembered 60 years later

Price: $15.00

Every do and every don't in this book is exactly as it was written down a hundred years ago by the Victorian era's leading expert on manners and morals. Professor Thosmas E. Hill directed the proper American man and woman on the "approved methods in speaking and acting in the various relations of life." 

by Professor Thomas E. Hill —128 pages, soft cover

Price: $8.95

... [this book] is much more than a recapitulation of Mrs. Lincoln's wardrobe habits. It provides both fresh insight and commentary addressing questions that beg to be answered about who Mary Lincoln was as a person.

Kim Matthew Bauer
Director
Lincoln Heritage Project
City of Decatur, Illinois

by Donna D. McCreary — 182 pages, hardbond

Price: $26.95

This book is an historical narrative of generations of Gibsons from their beginnings in England through migration to the American colonies, participation in the Revolutionary War and the Civil War and their settlement across America.

by Captain Henry E. Cummings, 160 pages — soft bound

Price: $20.00

Through historic photographs, maps, log books, diaries and recollections, Rick Bell re-creates, in thrilling detail, the magnitude of Louisville's worst natural disaster which, 70 years ago, put two-thirds of the city under water.

by Rick Bell - 144 pages, softcover

Price: $25.00

Paintings, Drawings and Prints by Eugene Field and Others.

The images are beautifully reproduced along with extensive commentary.

by Madeline Covi and Mary Augustine Starr — 69 pages, soft cover

Price: $15.00

In this colorful memoir, Betty Bryant shares her own piece of Americana, the small, family-owned showboat of the early twentieth century. Billly Bryant's Showboat plied the inland waterways of the Ohio River watershed from before the First World War until 1942, bringing a blend of memodrama and vaudeville, laughter and therapeutic tears, into the lives of isolated people in rural communities along the way.

Betty made her first professional appearance at the age of six weeks when she played the baby in Uncle Tom's Cabin. In here twenty years of touring, she acted, sang, danced, and grew up in the tradition of "family entertainment, by families, for families."

By Betty Bryant — 202 pages, hardbound

Price: $24.95

a booklet about the history of the Howard shipyards, soft cover

Price: $2.50

a small booklet produced by the Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth Texas, soft cover

Price: $3.50

Laugh your way through Indiana!

Your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places and things that the Hoosier State has to offer!

Whether you're a born-and-raised Indianan or a recent transplant, author Dick Wolfsie will have you laughing out loud as he introduces you to the neighbors you never knew you had and takes you to places you never knew existed — right in your own back yard.

by Dick Wolfsie — 352 pages, soft cover

Price: 13.95

The Ohio River Scenic Byway, designated a national byway in 1996, travels through quaint river towns, thriving cities and beautiful countryside on its 302-mile journey through southern Indiana. Indiana's history and early settlement began along the Ohio River and includes prehistoric Native American sites, 400-million-year-old Devonian fossil beds, the site where Lewis and Clark first met on the Corps of Discovery voyage, and Indiana's first state capitol.

The Image of America series celebrates the history of neighborhoods, towns, and cities across the country.

by Leslie Townsend - 127 pages, soft cover

Price: $19.99

by John H. White & Robert J. White — Island Queen story 115 pages soft cover

Price: $18.95

From their birth in the Roaring Twenties to the 1990's, the Delta King and Delta Queen battled against the odds. These monarchs ran nightly between San Francisco and Sacramento from 1927 to 1940. During World War II, they joined the U.S. Navy, serving on the Bay as hospital ferries, barracks, and troop shuttles. Since 1989 the Delta King has been serving as a hotel, theater and restaurant at the Old Sacramento waterfront. The Delta Queen still functions as a passenger ship touring America's inland waterways.

by Stan Garvey, 288 Pages, hardbound & paperback

Price: $27.95 hardbound, $15.95 softbound

by Mike Martin — the story of the U.S.S. LST-864, 270 pages, hard cover

Price: $42.95

by Dana Olson, 120 pages, soft cover

Price: $10.00

The use of steamboats as a means of river transport began in America in 1807 and rapidly became a major mode of transportation. Unfortunately, steamboat boilers gained a fearsome reputation for blowing up. From 1825 to 1848 almost 3000 people were killed or wounded by steamboat boiler failures. This book traces the interplay between private innovation and government regulation in an effort to deal with this problem.

by John K. Brown, 94 pages, soft cover

Price: $10.00

This book is a smorgasbord of authentic recipes for dishes known to have been served to Abraham Lincoln, from Beaten Biscuits to his much-loved Gingerbread, all served up with dollops of historical facts on the side.

Gerald D. Swick, historian, author and
newspaper columnist

by Donna D. McCreary — 182 pages, hardbound
Price: $28.95

by Leslie V. Horwitz — the true adventure of General john Hunt Morgan's into Kentucky, Indiana & Ohio, 456 pages, soft & hard cover

Prices: $24.95 soft copy, $34.95 hard copy

A Guide to the Best Places to Visit, Dine, Browse, Play, Walk, Observe, and Enjoy Louisville and Nearby Areas.

Art, parks, and landmarks are listed in this informative, user-friendly guide. Included in an easy-to-read format are phone numbers, driving directions, websites, and sightseeing tips. Things to do with kids, as well as a list of free attractions, make this a valuable planning guide. And, there is a calendar of ‘Sites to See’ events to allow you to better schedule when to view these locations at their creative peak.

"Louisville Sites to See by Design" is an all-in-one reference to maximize your enjoyment of this community’s aesthetic and cultural assets. Whether you have only one hour, one day, one week, or longer, this book will enhance the value and increase your experience of this unique and remarkable city. Just find the section that is of most interest, then follow the directions for a memorable journey.

by Stephen A. Wiser, AIA, 192 pages, soft cover

Copyright 2003

Price: $14.95

The history and adventures of LST 698 (Landing Ship Tank) and what made these ships so essential in island actions of World War II (1944-45).

by Homer Haswell -237 pages

$22.00 softbound, $32.00 hardound

Known for its well-preserved architecture, Natchez, Mississippi, is a step back into the Old South, where elegant homes, rambling mansions, and historic plantations marked territory like the medieval castles of Europe. The Majesty of Natchez is a breathtaking photographic tour of the area in and around Natchez. This collection of full-color photographs highlights the beauty and grandeur of the town's finest homes, inside and out.

by Reid Smith and John Owens, 84 pages, many color photos, hard cover

Price: $15.95

Story of a riverboat family over 142 years of American river history.

by Capt. Alan L. Bates, 119 pages, soft cover

Price: $9.50

drawings by Laura Jean Howard

soft cover

Price $2.00

A pictorial history of Fontaine Ferry Park.

Price: $5.00

booklet, pictorial history

$5.00

A pictorial history and commentary on the Steamboat Era.

Editors Mary Helen Butler-Clark, Elaine Rhodes, 64 pages, many photos, softcover

Price: $5.00

a celebration of 300 years of deep South history, 168 pages, soft cover,

Price: $16.95

by Pat Middleton— a 48 page kid's workbook for home and school (grades 3-12)

Price: $13.95

by Joan W. Gandy and Thomas H. Gandy — historic photographs, Natchez to New Orleans 1870-1920, 120 pages, soft cover

Price: $12.95

MOONLITE at 8:30 was the clarion call blazoned from posters on every outdoor wall, barn and pole when an excursion steamer came to town in the Mississippi Valley. And nearly everyone in town responded to them, for the elegant and glamorous riverboats could sop up entire civic populations for an evening of dancing and romance on the river.

This book tells the romance, the history, the labor, and the business aspects of excursion boats. More than 150 photographs, many never published before, illustrate it.

by Captain Alan L. Bates, 234 pages

Price: $30.00

by Arville L. Funk — the trail of Gen. John Hunt Morgan of Kentucky and his "Morgan Raiders", 68 pages, soft cover

Price: $7.95

a narrative of personal experience, 36 pages, soft cover

Price:$5.00

The New Orleans, first steamboat to go down the western rivers, set out on her maiden voyage in October 1811. The only passengers were Nicholas Roosevelt, the boat's mercurial builder; his twenty-year-old wife, Lydia; and their young daughter. Not even the boat's designer, Robert Fulton, would risk the hazardous twenty-five-hundred-mile voyage. By the time the boat docked in New Orleans in January 1812, the family had endured navigational perils, an earthquake, fire, and the birth of their son.

Mr. Roosevelt's Steamboat is a stirring adventure story, a narrative with a wealth of fascinating details about the people involved. It is also an authoritative account of a historic voyage that made an important contribution to the transportation revolution.

by Mary Helen Dohan, 194 pages, paperback

Price: $15.95

by Admiral David D. Porter — 843 pages, soft cover

Price: $37.95

This is a richly colored catalog of paintings of Norman Kohlhepp that were exhibited at the annual Fall Into Art event at the Howard Steamboat Museum in the fall of 2006. The catalog also contains a biography and a detailed discussion of his paintings.

This catalog was funded in part by the following organizations:

The Arts Council of Southern Indiana

The Indiana Arts Commission

The National Endowment For The Arts

35 8½" x 11" pages

Price $20.00

The author narrates the story of life along the Ohio River from prehistoric times to the mid-20th century.

by R. E. Banta, 592 pages, softbound

Price $19.95

What was it like to live, work, play, and travel along the Ohio River in the early part of the twentieth century! What was the look and feel of the towns and villages that lined its banks in the days before private cars and highways? From 1900 to 1930, the Ohio River was the most economical and reliable mode of transporting goods and people from Cincinnati, Ohio to Louisville, Kentucky, and to the dozens of towns that lay between. This fascinating pictorial history gives readers a glimse into the past of this area, and its extensive river heritage.

by Russell G. Ryle, 128 pages, softbound

Price: $18.99

This book addresses the Ohio, Allegheny, Monongahela, Muskingum, Kentucky, Green and Wabash Rivers.

The first five chapters explore 300 years of rich American History along the Ohio Rivers and its tributaries, including the French and Indian War, the American Revolution in the West, our country's expansion into the Northwest Territories, Lewis and Clark on the Ohio River, The Undergroud Railroad, the Civil War, the Steamboat Era, the evolution of the current lock and dam system, and the rise and decline of 19th, 20th and 21st century river industries.

The next eleven chapters geographically divide the Ohio River and its navigable tributaries into distinct regions. The individual colorful histories, as well as the current amenities found in 200 river towns are explored here. The last chapter addresses the significance of the current towboat traffic seen on today's rivers.

This book is divided into three sections:

• Section 1 explores the history of the Ohio River region from the pre-colonial era to modern times.
• Section 2 takes us through the region, relating historical anecdotes as well as current helpful boating and tourist information.
• Section 3 discusses boating related matters, including traveling through locks, towboat traffic and boating etiquette

Eleven appendices present lists of useful information for touring the region by boat such as:

• over-nighting marinas
• city, town and restaurant docks
• locks and dams
• 85 boater-useful GPS waypoints
• US Army Corps of Engineer Chartbooks
• bridges over navigable rivers with boater-important information
• annual festivals held along the rivers

By Captain Rick Rhodes — 320 pages, softbound

Price: $35.95

a listing of resources for Ohio River studies: major holdings of libraries, museums, etc.; web sites; historical societies, 27 pages, soft cover.

Price: $8.00

Chances are, one or more of your ancestors was known for her delicious bread pudding. Perhaps it was a simple mixture flavored with cinnamon and nutmeg, or one containing raisins or nuts. This collection of recipes comes from many families and many parts of the United States.

Price: $4.00 — soft cover booklet

The 78 recipes in this book include special holiday treats such as Cranberry Bread, Mincemeat Bread, Swedish Christmas Crescents, Spritz Cookies, Molasses Crinkles, White Fruit Cake and Cranberry-Orange Punch. A special section of steamed and baked puddings recalls old-time traditions. Try Plum Pudding, Pumpkin Pudding or steamed Persimmon Pudding for a special treat.

Price: $ 4.00 — soft cover booklet

This booklet tells the story of the river packet Tell City, which was built in the Howard Shipyards in 1889 and sank in 1917. The pilothouse was salvaged and in 1976 was relocated to the Ohio River Museum in Marietta, Ohio as a permanent exhibit. 

48 pages, soft cover.

Price: $2.00

recollections of a steamboat pilot 1854-1863, 323 pages, soft cover

Price: $15.95

This catalog was compiled by Warren and Julie Payne to accompany the Howard Steamboat Museum 2008 Fall into Art exhibit: Patty Thum.

The catalog displays 40 full-color images of Patty Thum's paintings along with interesting essays by Lynn Scholl Renau and Madeline Covi on Patty Thum's life and art.

Catalog editor Warren Payne
Catalog design by Julie Payne

All photography by Julie Payne except where noted.

Printed at Budget Printing Centers Inc.
902 E. 10th St.
Jeffersonville, IN 47130

Soft Cover 8½ by 10¾ inches
Price $20.00 (shipping included)

"Just as the pioneers who first crossed the Eastern U.S. mountains into their great unknown carried not only skills and tools with them but also the then few widely circulated inspirational books, today's back-to-the-lander should pack Payne Hollow. A quiet book born of a quiet, contemplative life, it is imbued with a Zen-like understanding of work as meditation... It joins the work of Henry Thoreau and the more recent writing of Helen and Scott Nearing on a growing shelf of wisdom literature for the alternative lifestyles movement."

—The Living Wilderness

by Harlan Hubbard — 173 pages, softbound

Price $12.50

a river journey and photographs.

essays by Robert L. Reid & Dan Hughes Fuller, 105 pages

Price: $16.50

This catalog was compiled by Warren and Julie Payne to accompany the Howard Steamboat Museum 2008 Fall into Art exhibit: The Work of Paul Plaschke.

The catalog displays 28 full-color images of Plaschke's paintings. Louisville's art historian Estill Curtis Pennington writes a detailed and insightful commentary on the work of Plaschke and his Indiana and Kentucky contemporaries. Warren Payne writes an account of a Chicago art critic's assessment of Plaschke's work. Anne Marie Bauscher relates the history of the Wonderland Way Art Club in New Albany that was founded by poet and artist James L. Russell and attracted local artists such as Paul Plaschke.

Catalog editor Warren Payne
Catalog design by Julie Payne
Fine art photo-documentation by Bill Roughen

All photography by Julie Payne except where noted.

Printed at Budget Printing Centers Inc.
902 E. 10th St.
Jeffersonville, IN 47130

Soft Cover 8½ by 10¾ inches
Price $20.00 (shipping included)

All the adventure, drama, danger, sheer luxury, excitement, and nostalgia of the magnificent steamboat era on America's rivers are captured in this superb collection of contemporary images, with fascinating essays written with poignancy and wit by one of the most authoritative authors on the subject.

by William C. Davis — 144 pages, hard cover

Price: $25.00

The Journal of The Cincinnati Historical Society is published three times a year.

The J. Mack Gamble Fund was established in 1976 by the Sons and Daughters of Pioneer Rivermen form a bequest provided by the Gamble estate.

Mr. Gamble was one of the founding members of the Sons and Daughters of Pioneer Rivermen in 1939 and was the organization's first president.

Used to promote the historical and educational purposes of the Sons and Daughters of Pioneer Rivermen, the Fund is administered in keeping with J. Mack Gamble's life-long interest as an historian, author and educator.

The Sons and Daughters of Pioneer Rivermen, "America's Riverboat Historical Society." strives to meet the challenge of its motto: "Lighting the Past, Present and Future of the Mississipppi River System."

Price: $12.50 per year

by Mary Virginia Heuser, 32 pages, soft cover

Price: 10.00

The River Home takes the reader into a world few ever glimpse, that of America's riverboats. In this fast-paced narrative with incisive characterizations and dialogue, Dorothy Weil introduces us to a vivid milieu and a gallery of fascinating people. We meet her father, a "wild river man from the Kentucky hills," her mother , "a proper girl from a Cincinnati Dutch clan," and her brother, a fourth-generation river man. We follow along as the family struggles to survive on the river in the midst of the Great Depression.

The death of her father in 1980 prompts Weil to search for and reclaim her family's river roots. She embarks on a river odyssey, traveling the Ohio, Missouri, and Mississippi rivers by steamboat, towboat and even an old-fashioned flatboat. The rivers bring her family back as she records the stories of her fellow "river rats" -steamboat veterans, deckhands, captains and cooks.

In a voice that is clear, wry, and poetic, Weil brings out both the sadness and joys of a vibrant family torn by mismatched backgrounds and temperaments. Her themes speak to all: the confusion brought by family conflict, the strength of family love no matter how troubled the relationships, the mortality we all face, the importance of where we come from and where we go.

By Dorothy Well, 247 pages, hard cover

Price: $24.95

river and lake information of the world, 32 pages, soft cover

by Neil Morris

Price: $6.95

the story of James B. Eads and the Mississippi River

by Dorsey

Price: $25.00

This publication fairly bristles with the energy of river boat enthusiasts. It has well-written articles about the present and the past. Each issue is full of excellent color and black and white photos.

published quarterly by the Sons and Daughters of Pioneer Rivermen

approximately 35 pages, soft cover

Price: $20.00 per year

Memories of Frances Howard Kohlhepp, who grew up in the Howard mansion built by the second generations of Howards, Master Steamboat builders.

153 pages, soft cover, illustrations

Price: $10.00

by John V. Hadley — the story of an escaping Civil War soldier in search of freedom, 258 pages, soft cover

Price: $10.00

Shantyboat is the story of a leisurely journey down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans. For most people, such a journey is the stuff that dreams are made of, but for Harlan and Anna Hubbard, it became a cherished reality. In the fall of 1944, they built a houseboat. It was small, but it neatly accommodated their needs on the banks of the Ohio near Cincinnati. Two years later they set out to drift down the river.

by Harlan Hubbard — 352 pages, softbound

Price $18.00

Civil War engagements along southern shores and rivers: a state by state survey of naval engagements in the South

by Dave Page, 410 pages

Price: $22.95

by Harold E. Gourley — a pictorial interpretation and description of LST's at Evansville, IN, 132 pages, hard cover

Price: $35.00

edited by Jan Henry Mowbrey — eyewitness accounts of the sinking of the Titanic, 287 pages, soft cover

Price: $6.95

by Leslie C. Swanson — 60 pages, soft cover

Price: $6.00

by Dorothy Heckmann Shrader — memories of a Missouri River childhood, 182 pages, soft cover

Price: $12.95

by Dorothy Heckmann Shrader — life and times of a steamboat family, 276 pages, soft cover

Price: $12.95

by Dorothy Heckmann Shrader - writings and career of Steamboat Bill Heckman, illustration, 250 pages, soft cover

Price: 12.95

by Dorothy Heckmann Shrader — Steamboat Kid, Steamboat Legacy, and Steamboat Treasures, all three in a hard cover slip case

Price: $39.95

by William J. Peterson — 575 pages, soft cover

Price: $15.95

by Duanne Huddleston, Sammie Cantrell Rose and Pat Taylor Wood —"a heritage revisited", 183 pages, soft cover

Price: $27.50

Steamboats on the Muskingum is a history of steamboating on the Muskingum river. The Muskingum river flows from the center of Ohio southeast to where it joins the Ohio at Marietta. This book provides an interesting narrative of the role that steamboats played in the economic development of this corner of the Mississippi river basin. It contains many photographs of riverboats along with a listing of steamboats that navigated the Muskingum from 1924 to 1913.

by J. Mack Gamble —  162 pages, hard cover

Price: $16.00

by Louis C. Hunter — an economic and technological history of steamboats in the Mississippi basin, 684 pages, soft cover

Price: $17.95

Steamboats Today is a pictorial survey of steam-powered passenger boats in existence as recently as 1991. The book has detailed descriptions along with at least one photograph of each boat.

by Tom Rhodes & Harley Scott 148 pages, Paperback

Price: $10.00

edited by Jack Winocour — the Titanic story as told by its survivors, 320 pages, soft cover

Price: $8.95

"Lee Surrenders!" "President Murdered!" "Booth Killed!" screamed the headlines of American newspapers in April 1865, leaving little room for mention of a maritime disaster that to this day stands as America's worst. On April 27, 1865, the Sultana, a 260-foot wooden-hulled steamboat -smaller than the Titanic but carrying more passengers- exploded on the Mississippi River near Memphis, Tennessee.

More than 1,800 men, mostly Union soldiers on their way home from Confederate prison camps, died. On boards were over 2.600 passengers, -six times the ship's legal capacity. Hundreds who were not killed in the explosion drowned in the cold, swift waters of the muddy Mississippi River.

In this highly documented book, author Jerr O. Potter focuses on how greed, indifference, gross stupidity, and criminal misconduct reaching as far as the White House led to the overloading of the Sultana.

by Jerry O. Potter —  300 pages, hard cover

Price: $24.95

An exciting panorama of life on the Mississippi, from its discovery by DeSoto down to the present day, is unrolled in all its comedy and romance in this handsome volume. In swift-moving, rollicking tales and magnificent pictures, there unfolds a kaleidoscopic parade of fabulous characters who lived, brawled, wrought mightily, and died along the great river.

Here are the flatboat and keelboatmen -tough, lusty, and uproarious -who would fight at the drop of a chaw of tobacco. Portrayed too are the reckless captains and engineers of the incredibly baroque "mistresses" of the river- ready to risk their lives, their steamboats and their passengers merely to win a race or to chalk up another record.

by Ray Samuel, Leonard V. Huber and  Warren C. Ogden, 240 pages

Price: $25.00

The author expertly weaves his narrative around the county's two hundred years of development, particularly its economic development, and its always changing social and community patterns.

by Carl E. Kramer, author and Mary Kagin Kramer, photographic editor

636 pages, hard cover

Price: $35.00

by Frank Y. Grayson, Editor Barbara Huffman — 280 pages, soft cover

Price: $21.95

by Beverly McMillen and Stanley Lehner — letters, mementos, etc. from those who sailed on the ship, 192 pages, hard cover

Price: $30.00

Handsome in appearance, simple in construction, and remarkably efficient, early American tools were true marvels of ingenuity. In the hands of skilled workers, they were used to create everything from simple shelters, wagons, and fences to intricately carved chairs, fireplace mantels, and door moldings.

In this richly illustrated book, author and master craftsman Alex Bealer tells the fascinating story of woodworking in colonial America. More than 200 drawings and photographs illustrate implements as they were once actually used and as they are still employed by many woodworkers today.

by Alex W. Bealer, 212 pages, over 200 drawings, paperbound.

Price:  $11.95

Captain Ron Larson begins with the early French explorers and hardy fur trappers. He covers the history of the paddlewheel steamboats from the first one on the Mississippi River in 1811 to the founding and growth of the paddlewheel steamboat companies. Added to this history are stories and tales from river pilots.

by Captain Ron Larson,  269 Pages, 165 river scenes & steamboat illustrations, Paperback

Price: $18.70

by David C. King -- 96 pages, soft cover

What would it be like to grow up in New York City during the exciting Victorian era? Travel back to 1893 and find out. Join the Kadinskys, a family of Polish immigrants working hard to start a new life, and the Hobarts, a well-to-do American family living in a large house near Central Park.

Be a part of the daily lives of 11-year-old Mary Kadinsky and 12-year-old William Hobard with fun and easy projects, activities and games.

Price: $12.95

In this book, urban historian Carl E. Kramer relates ten episodes in the history of life along the Falls of the Ohio. In the course of ten chapters, he ranges from pre-historic times to the story of the Howard Shipyard.

by Carl E. Kramer, 135 pages, soft cover

Price: $10.00

by Robert E. Davis — a narrative of the Civil War Morgan's Raiders, 223 pages, soft cover

Price: $15.55

by Andrew W. German — ways the sea touches our lives, 96 pages, soft cover

Price: $15.95

by Lawrence Everett Giffen

The author traces the role that steamboats played in the development of the lower Missouri River in the 19th century.

by Richard B. Wathen, 192 pages, soft cover

Price: $8.95

by Frederick Way, Jr.  Almost 6,000 entries, combination passenger and freight steamboats, many phtographs, 625 pages, soft cover

Price: $34.95

by Frederick Way Jr. — description of steam powered towboats of the Mississippi River system, many photographs, 294 pages, hard cover

Price: $39.95

Here is the companion book to the celebrated THE WESTERN RIVERS STEAMBOAT CYCLOPŒDIUM, the book that shows and explains the structural elements of steamboats. THE WESTERN RIVERS ENGINEROOM CYCLOPŒDIUM completes the picture by describing and showing the engines with all their ancillary equipment and machinery.

by Alan L. Bates - 64 pages, soft cover

Price $20.00

This book delves into the structure and detail of the American Riverboat. It is salted with river lore, with a nod to today's model builder.

by Alan Bates— 123 pages, spiral bound, soft cover.

Price: $20.00

by Mike Gillespe

Price: $15.95