Plantation Life: On the Mississippi - Paperback

by William Edwards Clement (Author), Stuart Omer Landry Jr. (With), Harnett T. Kane (Introduction by)

One day in 1852, The Princess, one of the finest steamboats afloat on the Mississippi River one hundred years ago was rounding the bend a Duncan's Point about ten miles below Baton Rouge, when the boilers exploded with a frightful loss of life.