Download or read book Days of the Steamboats written by William H. Ewen and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exciting history of American steamboats -- the palatial passenger boats and workaday freight steamers of the Atlantic and Pacific coastal waters, the Great Lakes, and the Hudson and Mississippi river systems -- is colorfully narrated in picture and prose by steamboat expert William H. Ewen. This general work will appeal to young adult readers as well as older steamboat buffs.