The Profitability of Steamboating on Western Rivers: 1850

Jeremy Atack, Erik F. Haites, James Mak and Gary M. Walton

Business History Review, 1975, vol. 49, issue 3, 346-354

Abstract: This study indicates that profit rates in western river steamboating were typical of the returns earned in other antebellum business activities, and that returns were much higher on tributary than on trunk steamboating routes.

Date: 1975
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