Port Famine, Sonora
Port Famine was a steamboat landing and woodyard, supplying wood to the steamboats on the lower Colorado River in Sonora, Mexico, from the 1854 to the late 1870s.
Location
Port Famine was located 40 miles above Robinson's Landing and 17 miles below Gridiron.[1] Port Famine lay along the east bank of the river 64 miles (103 km) below what is now the Sonora - Arizona border.[2]
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gollark: The slope is the gradient, dy/dx, rise/run, whatever - how much it goes up for each unit it goes right.
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References
- Richard E. Lingenfelter, Steamboats on the Colorado River, 1852-1916, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 1978, p.12,167
- Lingenfelter, Steamboats, p.10 Map: Steamboat Landings on the Colorado River in the 1850s
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