The Des Moines Rapids: A History of its Adverse Effects on Mississippi River Traffic and its Use as a Source of Water Power to 1860

During the 19th Century, the Mississippi River was the chief commercial highway in the United States. But for two impediments, the Upper and Lower (Des Moines) Rapids, its entire course of 2400 miles would have offered an untroubled thoroughfare to watercraft.The federal government, as well as priva...

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Main Author:	Enders, Donald L.
Format:	Others
Published:	BYU ScholarsArchive 1973
Subjects:	Rapids Des Moines River Shipping Mississippi River History 19th century Water-power Des Moines River Region Mormon Studies Transportation Engineering
Online Access:	https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/4668 https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5667&context=etd

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spelling	ndltd-BGMYU2-oai-scholarsarchive.byu.edu-etd-56672021-09-01T05:02:32Z The Des Moines Rapids: A History of its Adverse Effects on Mississippi River Traffic and its Use as a Source of Water Power to 1860 Enders, Donald L. During the 19th Century, the Mississippi River was the chief commercial highway in the United States. But for two impediments, the Upper and Lower (Des Moines) Rapids, its entire course of 2400 miles would have offered an untroubled thoroughfare to watercraft.The federal government, as well as private concerns, attempted throughout the better part of that century to alleviate the river of its barriers and to develop its rapids as a source of power. Those attempts were disappointingly unsuccessful, however, and not until the advent of the 20th Century, when the nation had matured both economically and technologically, was the Mississippi freed of its obstacles and developed on a large scale as a source of energy. 1973-01-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/4668 https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5667&context=etd http://lib.byu.edu/about/copyright/ Theses and Dissertations BYU ScholarsArchive Rapids Des Moines River Shipping Mississippi River History 19th century Water-power Des Moines River Region Mormon Studies Transportation Engineering
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description	During the 19th Century, the Mississippi River was the chief commercial highway in the United States. But for two impediments, the Upper and Lower (Des Moines) Rapids, its entire course of 2400 miles would have offered an untroubled thoroughfare to watercraft.The federal government, as well as private concerns, attempted throughout the better part of that century to alleviate the river of its barriers and to develop its rapids as a source of power. Those attempts were disappointingly unsuccessful, however, and not until the advent of the 20th Century, when the nation had matured both economically and technologically, was the Mississippi freed of its obstacles and developed on a large scale as a source of energy.
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title	The Des Moines Rapids: A History of its Adverse Effects on Mississippi River Traffic and its Use as a Source of Water Power to 1860
title_short	The Des Moines Rapids: A History of its Adverse Effects on Mississippi River Traffic and its Use as a Source of Water Power to 1860
title_full	The Des Moines Rapids: A History of its Adverse Effects on Mississippi River Traffic and its Use as a Source of Water Power to 1860
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The Des Moines Rapids: A History of its Adverse Effects on Mississippi River Traffic and its Use as a Source of Water Power to 1860

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