Baja Ted - a quite detailed history of the steamboat period was in two consecutive issues of the California Historical Society Quarterly. There is a
lot of info in these articles mentioning Ehrenberg, Port Isabel, the ocean going craft as well as good stuff on all of the Colorado River steamboats.
Title: Steam Navigation on the Colorado River (parts 1 & 2)
Author: Francis Hale Leavitt
Part 1 - is Vol. 22, No 1
Part 2 - is Vol. 22, No 2 |