Steamboats
La Crosse County Historical Sketches, 1931-1955
Early Transportation on the Upper Mississippi / Charles Jagow
Early Steamboat and Packet Lines / Ruth Bristow
Early Steamboats on the Upper Mississippi River / Ruth Bristow
Some Early La Crosse Steamboats / Edward M. Winslow
La Crosse River History and the Davidsons / H.J. Hirshheimer
Steamboats & Mississippi and Inland Rivers / Murphy Library, UW-La Crosse
UW La Crosse Historic Steamboat PhotographsThe UW-La Crosse Historic Steamboat Photograph collection consists of over 40,000 black and white photographic images of steamboats on the inland waterways of the United States, primarily the Mississippi, Ohio and Missouri rivers and their tributaries. The photos depict steamboats in every phase of their life span — from construction to destruction — and every aspect of their daily operations from the 1850s to the present. <more>
