When horses walked on water

horse-powered ferries in nineteenth-century America

Kevin J. Crisman and Arthur B. Cohn show how a confluence of geographic, technological, economic, and social conditions in the United States and Canada turned an ancient idea into a practical alternative to more expensive and dangerous steamboats.

• Format
• 292 pages, Hardcover
• First published
• 1998
• Publishers
• Smithsonian Institution Press
• Subjects
• Team boats·United States·Team boats·Canada
• Language
• English