OT: Towboat River

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This sure looks familiar.

OT: Towboating on the Mississippi

“Towboating on the Mississippi,” by William J. Petersen, AS Barnes, Cranbury, NJ, 1979. This 294-page coffee table size hard back gives an overview of towboating. Author Petersen is a lifelong riverboat man known as Steamboat Bill. He did his PhD on steamboats (aka packet boats) dating back to 1928. Here he reports 28 trips on towboats on branches of the Mississippi with a history of towboating in the introduction. The book has numerous photos of towboating. Mark Twain’s Life on the Missis…