[65] “Theodore Roosevelt,” by W. R. Thayer, p. 186.
[66] “The American Year Book,” 1919. Appleton, N. Y.
[67] Panama Canal Record.
[68] For a long list of steamboats built in America, and operated under their own power prior to Fulton’s Clermont, see “A History of Travel in America,” by Seymour Dunbar.
[69] “American Nation,” Vol. XIV.
[70] “American Nation,” Vol. XIV, p. 105.
[71] Henry Howe, “Historical Sketch of the West.”
[72] Statistical Atlas 1900. 12th Census of the U. S.
[73] Charles Barnard in The Century Magazine, Vol. XXXVIII, from which also is derived information relative to dimensions and decorations of steam vessels, pp. 353-372.
[74] See “Life on the Mississippi,” by Mark Twain, p. 117.