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Nature never intended the Brazos River for navigation, but before the coming of the railroads Brazos steamboats were a necessary, if always erratic, form of transport. And there were men to meet the challenge. One captain, heedless of shallows, shoals, snags, and falls, boasted that he could tap a keg and run a boat four miles on the suds. Based on rich archival sources, this authoritative and entertaining book tells of the men and boats that braved the river from the earliest days to the late 1890s.

Preface	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xv
The River
The Muddy Brazos	p. 3
Tidewater	p. 4
The Middle Brazos	p. 8
Beyond Hidalgo	p. 14
Snags and Shoal Water	p. 17
Washington Leads the Way	p. 18
The Galveston and Brazos Navigation Company	p. 20
The Brazos River Improvement Association	p. 23
River Improvement, Texas Style	p. 25
War and Reconstruction	p. 29
Survey and Denial	p. 30
Slack-Water	p. 32
The Boats
The Challenge of Steam	p. 37
The Ariel	p. 41
The Cayuga	p. 42
The Laura	p. 44
The Yellow Stone	p. 46
The Ocean	p. 49
The Crusader	p. 50
The Friend	p. 50
The Amite	p. 51
The Constitution	p. 51
The Rodney	p. 52
The Lafitte	p. 52
The Mustang	p. 54
The Lady Byron	p. 57
The Leo	p. 58
The Golden Years	p. 60
The Samuel M. Williams	p. 60
The E. A. Ogden	p. 62
The Ohio	p. 63
The Brazos Boats	p. 63
The Elite	p. 69
The Galveston	p. 70
The Jack Hays	p. 71
The General Hamer	p. 71
The Camden	p. 72
The Reliance	p. 74
The Major A. Harris	p. 75
The William Penn	p. 77
The Julia and the Colonel Woods	p. 79
The Magnolia	p. 79
The Star State	p. 80
The Arthur	p. 81
The Josiah H. Bell	p. 81
The Nick Hill	p. 83
The Fort Henry	p. 84
The United States	p. 87
The Swan	p. 87
The Grapeshot	p. 88
The Dr. Smith	p. 88
The Betty Powell	p. 89
The Dan	p. 90
The Belle Sulphur	p. 90
The Sun Flower	p. 91
The Era No. 3	p. 91
The Flora	p. 92
The Lucy Gwin	p. 93
The End of an Era	p. 94
The John S. Sellers and the S. J. Lee	p. 94
The Camargo	p. 96
The Travis	p. 96
The Henry A. Jones	p. 96
The John Scott	p. 97
The George W. Thomas and the Beardstown	p. 98
The Kate	p. 99
The Storm	p. 100
The J. L. Graham	p. 100
The Waco Boats	p. 101
The Liberty and the D. Van Buskirk	p. 103
The Vicksburg	p. 104
The Niobrara and the Tom Parker	p. 104
The Propeller Boats	p. 105
The L. Q. C. Lamar	p. 107
The White Water and the Emily P.	p. 107
The Christie and the Justine	p. 108
The Alice Blair	p. 109
The Hiawatha	p. 111
Brazos River Steamboat Captains and Their Boats	p. 115
Bibliography	p. 119
Index	p. 133
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