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References
- 1 2 Arizona Miner, May 25, 1864, pg. 3, col. 4
- ↑ Scott, Erving M. and Others, Evolution of Shipping and Ship-Building in California, Part II, Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine, Volume 25, February 1895, p. 123
- 1 2 Scott, Erving M. and Others, Evolution of Shipping and Ship-Building in California, Part II, Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine, Volume 25, February 1895, p. 125
- 1 2 3 E. M. North, Evolution of Shipping and Shipbuilding in California VI, February 1899, The Overland Monthly, Vol. XXXIII, January - June 1899, Overland Monthly Publishing Company, San Francisco, 1899.
- ↑ Nancy J. Olmsted, Vanished Waters: A History of San Francisco's Mission Bay", Mission Creek Conservancy, 1986, Chapter 7, Steamboat Point, 1851-1864 from foundsf.org accessed February 19, 2015
- ↑ Joseph C. Ives, Report Upon the Colorado River of the West, Explored in 1857 and 1858 By Lieutenant Joseph C. Ives, Corps of Topographical Engineers, Under the Direction of the Office of Explorations and Surveys, A. A. Humphreys, Captain Topographical Engineers, in Charge. By Order of the Secretary of War, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1861; Part I. General Report.
- ↑ Daily Alta California, Volume 18, Number 5946, 21 June 1866, p.1 col.4 Pacific Coast Correspondence. Letter from Arizona
- ↑ Scott, Erving M. and Others, Evolution of Shipping and Ship-Building in California, Part I, Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine, Volume 25, January 1895, p. 15; from quod.lib.umich.edu accessed December 14, 2014
- 1 2 Scott, Erving M. and Others, Evolution of Shipping and Ship-Building in California, Part III, Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine, Volume 25, March 1895, p. 287; from quod.lib.umich.edu accessed December 14, 2014
- ↑ Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 17, Number 2500, 1 April 1859 p.5, Col. 2
- ↑ The Times-Picayune, New Orleans, Friday Morning, May 6, 1859. Volume XXIII, Number 88, p. 1, Col.7 - p. 2, Col. 1
- ↑ Sailors Magazine, for the Year ending August 1859, Vol. XXXI, American Seamen's Friend Society, New York, 1859, p.368, Marine Losses May and June
- ↑ Cliff Dweller was the gasoline-powered, screw-driven, City of Moab, rebuilt as a coal fired stern-wheel steamboat.
- Richard E. Lingenfelter, Steamboats on the Colorado River, 1852-1916, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 1978, pp. 161–165, Appendix A and B
Steamboats in general
- Hunter, Louis C., Steamboats on the Western Rivers, Dover Publications, NY 1947 ISBN 0-486-27863-8
