Plantation Life: On the Mississippi

by William Edwards Clement

Book Overview

One day in 1852, The Princess, one of the finest steamboats afloat on the Mississippi River one hundred years ago was rounding the bend a Duncan 1/2s Point about ten miles below Baton Rouge, when the boilers exploded with a frightful loss of life. The disaster occurred in front of the Conrad cottage where a descendant, the late G. Mather Conrad, of New Orleans, was born and lived as a youth. Lyle Saxon in his Old Louisiana tells of having known...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1565544366
• ISBN13: 9781565544369
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"