Book cover for Chesapeake 1880: Steamboats & Oyster Wars - The News Reader by Ken Rossignol

Chesapeake 1880

Steamboats & Oyster Wars - The News Reader

2014 Released
244 Pages
4-6 Hours
Ebook Unavailable
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Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformISBN 9781505334432

Life in the Chesapeake region for the family of Ethan Aaron Douglas, from steamboats to newspapers, struggles of immigrants and the changes brought by the industrial revolution. The simple life of watermen and challenges of weather, fire and disaster in the era of 1880 to 1910 brought to life for the reader from a life-long resident of the Tidewater region. Catch up on the latest events from around the Chesapeake as told by the NEWS READERS on the steamboats of the Old Bay Line to the passengers.

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