Captain W. W. Withenbury's 1838-1842 ""Red River Reminiscences

Autorentext

Jacques D. Bagur holds a degree from LSU, USA and has spent more than thirty years in applied research specializing in the geography of Louisiana and East Texas. The author of UNT Press's A History of Navigation on Cypress Bayou and the Lakes and Antebellum Jefferson, Texas, he lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Klappentext

W.W. Withenbury was a river boat captain during the mid-1800s. In retirement, he wrote a series of letters for the Cincinnati Commercial, under the title "Red River Reminiscences”. Jacques Bagur has selected and annotated 39 letters describing three steamboat voyages on the upper Red River from 1838 to 1842. Withenbury was a master of character and incident, and his profiles of persons, including three signers of the Texas Declaration of Independence, reflect years of acquaintance.

Zusammenfassung
A selection of letters written to the Cincinnati Commercial newspaper from 1870-1871 about steamboat travel on the Red River in 1838-1841.