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?Here is the struggle of the David and Goliath of southern New England shipping at the opening of the twentieth century. Unlike corporate business histories, this is not a financial study, but rather an explanation of the overall strategy of operating a fleet of coastal steamers in an extremely competitive market. . . . The focus upon operating problems and procedures reveal the details involved in providing these services to southern New Engl...

Dunbaugh has written a carefully researched, comprehensive history of the overnight steamboat on Long Island Sound. These steamboats were the major means of transportation from New York to ports in southern New England or from Boston north to ports on the coast of Maine in the 19th century.