On The River-A Variety Of Canoe & Small Boat Voyages/ Selected, Edited & With An Intro. By Teller, Walter Magnes. New Brunswick, NJ...Rutgers University Press, c. 1976, xvii, 331 pages, ill., 24 cm. Includes index, Bibliography, Theme & Variations, Thoureau, H. D. Journal, Bishop, N. H. Voyage of the paper canoe, Four months In A Sneak Box; Wing, R. K. Canoeing on the Genesee; Thwaites, R. G. Historic Waterways; O'Reilly, J. B. Canoeing on the Connecticut; Down the Susquehanna in a Canoe, Down the Delaware River in a Canoe, Canoeing in the Dismal Swamp; Chichester, E. L. The Cruise of the Sybaris and Shaw Shaw; Remington, F. Black Water & Shallows; Browne, G. E. Canoeing down the Androscoggin; Stanton, G. S. Where the Sportsman Loves To Linger; Knowles, I. Two Girls in a Canoe; Dimock, A. W. Yachting in a Canoe; Cushing, C. P. Floating through the Ozarks; Kalland, A. It Can't Be Done. Recommended by Fiddlinsue, 8/1/2001.

Quimby's Harbor Guide By Quimby, M.. Quimby's Harbor guide to the entire navigable Mississippi River, the Arkansas, the Illinois Waterways, the St. Croix, the Minnesota and Black Rivers-2,621 river miles.  Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin.  M. Quimby, c. 1974, 71 pages, ill., 28 cm. Annual editions still published by The Waterways Journal, St. Louis, Missouri.   Recommended by Fiddlinsue, 8/1/2001.

River Horse- Across America by Boat By William Least Heat-Moon. Heat-Moon recounts his singular effort to cross America entirely by its interior waterways.  Along the route, he offers a lyrical and fascinating perspective on the country's rivers, lakes, canals, and landscapes.   He starts off aboard a small boat he names NIKAWA, (River Horse in Osage) from the Atlantic at New York Harbor in hopes of entering the Pacific near Astoria, Oregon.  He and a companion, Pilotis, struggle to cover some five-thousand watery miles, and each is an adventure, especially his journey UP the Missouri in the footsteps of Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery.   Teeming with humanity and high adventure, Heat-Moon's account is unsentimental and original arteriogram of our nation at the turn of the 21st Century. A great book to read yourself to sleep at night.   Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1999 Willie Recommended by AuthenticSteamboatWillie, 9/2/2003.

Rivers Of America Series By Rinehart & Co.. About 55 books published in the 1940's.   Recommended by Fiddlinsue, 8/1/2001.

Series: The First American Frontier By Forman, Samuel S.. 1765-1862.....Narration of a journey down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers in 1789-1790. New York, Arno Press [1971].......67 pages, 23 cm. Reprint of the 1888 edition. Notes of a young man's voyage from Pennsylvania to New Orleans by steamboat.  He was very ill with tuberculosis, but still carried on his business.   Recommended by Fiddlinsue, 7/29/2001.

Shantyboat: A River Way Of Life By Hubbard, Harlan. Has illustrations by the author and a foreword by Wendell Berry.  Lexington University Press of Kentucky, c. 1977, ix, 352 pages, 22 cm. Painter Harlan Hubbard built an 18 foot shantyboat near Cincinnati during the depression, moved aboard with his new bride, and drifted down the Ohio and Mississippi for several years. Stopping for summers at places where they could grow a garden.  There was also a later book Shantyboat in the Bayous.   Recommended by Fiddlinsue, 7/30/2001.

Simplified Boatbuilding By Sucher, Pat. The flatbottom boat. Has rough plans for a traditional river "yawl" or "skiff", small scows, and a west coast style sternwheeler, as well as an introduction to suitable carpentry.  Good but out of print.   Recommended by Fiddlinsue, 8/1/2001.

Steamboats On The Mississippi By Andrist, Ralph. American Heritage Publishing Co., New York.....1962.  153 pages, ill., LC 62-10384.   Recommended by Fiddlinsue, 8/1/2001.

Steamboats On The Western Rivers By Hunter, Louis C.. An Economic and Technical History.  Harvard University Press, 1949.  Paperback edition by Dover Publications, 1994. 704 pages, 15 lineillustrations, 15 halftones. Focuses primarily on the mid 19th Century.  Some discussion of construction and technology, a lot more on business, culture, economics, labor, etc.   Recommended by Fiddlinsue, 8/1/2001.

Sternwheelers On The Great Kanawha River By Sutphin, Gerald W. & Andre, Richard A.. Pictorial Histories Publishing, Charleston, WV, c. 1991, 198 pages, About 400 illustrations. Loaded with pictures of steamboats and reproductions of freight bills, tickets, newspaper clippings, along with commentary.   Recommended by Fiddlinsue, 8/1/2001.

The Allegheny By Way, Frederick Jr.. Describes his cruise from Orlean, N. Y. to Pittsburgh in a 16 foot skiff.  A lot of good stories.  A typical Fred Way Book, complete with a list of virtually every steamboat to ever navigate the Allegheny. 1942, 280 pages with drawings.   Recommended by Fiddlinsue, 8/1/2001.

The Father Of Waters: A Mississippi River Chronicle By Davis, Norah Deakin. Photographs by Joseph Holmes. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, c. 1982, 178 pages, 32 p. of plates,ill. with some colored, 31 cm. Recommended by Fiddlinsue, 7/29/2001.

The First Steamboat on the Mississippi By North, Sterling. Illustrated by Victor Mays. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, c. 1962, 184 pages, illustrated, 23 cm. Series: North Star Books. Covers the construction of the "New Orleans", its historic voyage on the Mississippi River, and the life of inventor and engineer Nicholas Roosevelt who pioneered in steam navigation.   Recommended by Fiddlinsue, 8/1/2001.

The Keelboat Age On Western Waters By Baldwin, Leland D. University of Pittsburgh Press, c. 1941, paperback re-issue 1980, 264 pages with about 50 pages of footnotes and bibliography. ISBN 0-8229-5319-6. Lots of history on keelboats.   Recommended by Fiddlinsue, 8/1/2001.

The Log Book of the Sailing Craft "Edith" By Carpenter, Joseph Quiner. The diary of a trip down the Mississippi to Florida that Laura Ingalls Wilder would have like to make into a story/settings and editing by Dorothy Smith. [Malone, N.Y.] D. Smith, c. 1984, 48 pages, [6] leaves of plates, ill., 23 cm. Includes bibliographical references.   Recommended by Fiddlinsue, 7/29/2001.