A-Rafting
on the Mississip'
by Charles Edward Russell
Book Description: During the nineteenth century, pine logs were
lashed together to form easily floatable rafts that traveled from Minnesota
and Wisconsin down the Mississippi River to build the farms and towns of
the virtually treeless lower Midwest. These huge log rafts were steered
down the river by steamboat pilots whose skill and intimate knowledge of
the river's many hazards were legendary. Charles Edward Russell, a Pulitzer
Prize-winning author, chronicles the history and river lore of seventy
years of lumber rafting.
Charles Edward Russell (1860-1941) grew up on the shores of the Mississippi
River during the days of lumber rafting. Best known as a journalist during
the muckraking era for his exposés on the beef and tobacco trusts, Russell
was also a cofounder of the National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People (NAACP) in 1909.
Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr (Trd); Reprint edition
(September 2001)
Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn (Great Illustrated Classics)
by Mark Twain, et al
(School & Library Binding - January 2002)
Cities
of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century Images of Urban Development
by John William Reps, Alex MacLean (Photographer)
(Hardcover - January 1995)
Flood:
Wrestling With the Mississippi
by Patricia Lauber
(Hardcover - October 1996)
Deep'N
As It Come : The 1927 Mississippi River Flood
by Pete Daniel
Includes over 140 photographs.
Forty
Years a Gambler on the Mississippi
by George H. Devol
Publisher: Applewood Books; Reprint edition (April 1996)
First
Steamboat Down the Mississippi
by George S. Fichter, Joe Boddy (Illustrator)
Ages 9-12.
Jolliet
and Marquette: Explorers of the Mississippi River (Explorers of New Worlds)
by Daniel E. Harmon (Library Binding - October 2001)
Life
on the Mississippi
by Mark Twain, Justin Kaplan (Introduction) (Mass Market Paperback
- November 2001)
Mark
Twain : Mississippi Writings : Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi, Huckleberry
Finn, Pudd'nhead Wilson (Library of America)
by Mark Twain, Guy Cardwell (Editor)
(Hardcover - November 1982)
The
Mississippi: and the Making of a Nation
by Stephen E. Ambrose, et al
Hardcover: 273 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.99 x 9.54 x 10.98
Publisher: National Geographic; (October 2002)
ISBN: 0792269136
Mississippi
Floods: Designing a Shifting Landscape
by Anuradha Mathur, et al
(Hardcover)
Mark
Twain and the Queens of the Mississippi
by Cheryl Harness
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Mr.
Roosevelt's Steamboat : The First Steamboat to Travel the Mississippi
by Mary Helen Dohan
Book Description: Mr. Roosevelt's Steamboat, a story of high
adventure and unlikely romance, is an authoritative account of the first
steamboat voyage on the Mississippi River. This hazardous three-month long
voyage changed the course of history. It is also the story of two fascinating
people, Nicholas Roosevelt and his adventurous young wife, Lyola Latrobe,
who together challenged the Mississippi...and won.
Mississippi
River Country Tales : A Celebration of 500 Years of Deep South History
by Jim Fraiser, William F. Winter
Old
Glory : A Voyage Down the Mississippi
by Jonathan Raban
(Paperback - June 1998)
Old
Times on the Upper Mississippi : Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot from
1854 to 1863
by George Byron Merrick
Book Description: George Byron Merrick chronicles the entire
panorama of steamboat life he experienced in the mid-1800s, where he started
as a cabin boy and worked up to cub pilot on the mighty Mississippi. Originally
published in 1909, Merrick's narrative matches lively stories about gamblers,
shipwrecks, and steamboat races with rich descriptions of river life and
steamboat operations.
George Byron Merrick (1841-1931) grew up in Prescott, Wisconsin, at
the junction of the Mississippi and St. Croix rivers. After nine years
of steamboating, he volunteered for the Wisconsin Infantry during the Civil
War before settling into life as a newspaper editor and publisher.
The
Outlaws of Cave-In-Rock : Historical Accounts of the Famous Highwaymen
and River Pirates Who Operated in Pioneer Days upon the Ohio and Mississippi
by Otto A. Rothert, Robert Clark
First published in 1923, this is the story of criminals from Kentucky,
Illinois, and Tennessee in the early years of the 19th century. Db.
Paperback: 367 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.03 x
8.97 x 6.04
Publisher: Southern Illinois Univ Pr (Trd); (January
2002)
ISBN: 0809320347
Road
to the Sea : The Story of James B. Eads and the Mississippi River
by Florence L. Dorsey
Publisher: Firebird Press; (April 1999)
A
River and Its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans
by Ari Kelman (Author)
Book Description: This engaging environmental history explores
the rise, fall, and rebirth of one of the nation's most important urban
public landscapes, and more significantly, the role public spaces play
in shaping people's relationships with the natural world. Ari Kelman focuses
on the battles fought over New Orleans's waterfront, examining the link
between a river and its city and tracking the conflict between public and
private control of the river. He describes the impact of floods, disease,
and changing technologies on New Orleans's interactions with the Mississippi.
Considering how the city grew distant--culturally and spatially--from the
river, this book argues that urban areas provide a rich source for understanding
people's connections with nature, and in turn, nature's impact on human
history.
Hardcover: 297 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.95 x
9.46 x 6.54
Publisher: University of California Press; (February
2003)
ISBN: 0520234324
The
River We Have Wrought: A History of the Upper Mississippi
by John O. Anfinson
(Hardcover - May 2003)
Steamboating
on the Upper Mississippi
by William J. Petersen
Tales
of the Mississippi
by Ray Samuel, Warren C. Ogden, Donald T. Wright
Publisher: Pelican Pub Co; 2nd edition (December 2000)
Upper
Mississippi River History : Fact-Fiction-Legend
by Ron Larson
Book Description: Captain Ron's book "UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER
HISTORY" begins with the early French explorers and hardy fur trappers.
He covers the history of the paddle-wheel steamboats from the first one
on the Mississippi River in 1811, the New Orleans, to the founding and
growth of the paddle-wheel steamboat companies on the upper Mississippi
River -- from passenger and freight steamboats to excursion paddle-wheel
steamboats of today.
You will find photographs and early historical stories of the upper
Mississippi river towns from St. Louis, Missouri, to Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Added to all this history are stories and tales from river pilots about
the names and landmarks along the upper Mississippi River.
Views
on the Mississippi : The Photographs of Henry Peter Bosse
by Mark Neuzil, Henry Peter Bosse (Photographer), Merry A. Foresta
Book Description: As mapmaker and photographer for the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, Henry Peter Bosse (1844-1903) took more than three
hundred photographs of the Upper Mississippi River from 1883 to 1893, a
time of unprecedented environmental and social change. Now recognized as
the leading photographer of his time of the Mississippi, his work was almost
unknown until five separate volumes of his photographs were discovered
during the past few years. Since then, Bosse's work has been exhibited
at the Smithsonian and other national museums and sold by leading auction
houses to private collectors around the world.
Views on the Mississippi brings together for the first time almost one
hundred of Bosse's most stunning images. These photographs-tracing the
river from Minneapolis to St. Louis-capture the Mississippi as it was being
transformed from an untamed natural wonder to a modern commercial highway.
Presenting the wagon and railroad bridges, the towns and villages along
the banks, and the steamboats that served them, Bosse's images depict the
river at the fulcrum between the nostalgic era recorded by Mark Twain and
the coming century of industrial development and environmental change,
including the alterations wrought by the navigation projects of the Army
Corps.
Bosse used the cyanotype process, which produced large-format photographs
in crisp, vivid blue tones. This volume offers high quality reproduction
with new captions providing the location and significance of each image,
as well as historical context. Also included here is a detailed reproduction
of Bosse's rare landmark map of the river, first published in 1887-88,
giving the reader with a fascinating guide to the historic Upper Mississippi.
Paperback from Univ of Minnesota Pr (Txt)
Book Published: October, 2002 |
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Voices
on the River: The Story of the Mississippi Waterways
by Walter Havighurst
(Paperback - March 2003)
Where
the River Runs Deep: The Story of a Mississippi River Pilot
by Joy J. Jackson
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press; (December 1993)
Way's
Packet Directory 1848-1994 : Passenger Steamboats of the Mississippi River
System Since the Advent of Photography in Mid-Continent America
by Frederick, Jr. Way (Compiler)
Lloyd's Steamboat Directory and Disasters on the Western Waters
by James T. Lloyd
Book Description: James T. Lloyd's Steamboat Directory and Disaster
on the Western Waters was the first general reference available on the
subject of American riverboats. Published in 1856, few histories on steamboating
were as deep and as broad as Lloyd's book. By his own admission, Lloyd's
work was the first to detail the "full accounts of all the steamboat disasters
since the first application of steam down to the present date.
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