Ghosts along the Mississippi River.
Title:
Ghosts along the Mississippi River.
Author:
Brown, Alan.
ISBN:
9781617031458
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (185 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Father of Waters: The Mississippi River -- ARKANSAS -- Holly Grove -- Captain Mull's House -- Helena -- The Phillips County Museum -- ILLINOIS -- Alton -- The Mansion House -- The McPike Mansion -- First Unitarian Church of Alton -- The Mineral Springs Hotel -- The Wead Building -- The Franklin House -- The Alton Penitentiary -- Cairo -- The Cairo Public Library -- Mound City National Cemetery -- Magnolia Manor -- Galena -- The Galena-Jo Daviess County Historical Society and Museum -- Turner Hall -- The DeSoto House Hotel -- Grafton -- The Ruebel Hotel -- Quincy -- Burton Cave Nature Preserve -- Ghost Hollow Road -- Quincy University -- Prairie du Rocher -- Fort de Chartres -- IOWA -- Davenport -- The Blackhawk Hotel -- Phi Kappa Chi Fraternity -- Ambrose Hall -- The Putnam Museum -- Dubuque -- The Mathias Ham House -- The Grand Opera House -- LOUISIANA -- New Orleans -- The Bottom of the Cup Tea Room -- Magnolia Mansion -- The Pontchartrain Hotel -- The Andrew Jackson Hotel -- The Place d'Armes Hotel -- Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop -- Le Petit Theatre -- O'Flaherty's Irish Channel Pub -- The Cabildo -- The LaLaurie House -- White Castle -- Nottoway Historic Inn -- MINNESOTA -- St. Paul -- Forepaugh's Restaurant -- The Griggs Mansion -- Gibbs Farmhouse Museum -- The Landmark Center -- The Fitzgerald Theater -- Minneapolis -- The Minneapolis City Hall -- The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -- The First Avenue Club -- Hennepin History Museum -- Winona -- St. Mary's University -- Winona State University -- Wabasha -- The Racing Scalawag -- The Anderson House -- Red Wing -- St. James Hotel -- MISSISSIPPI -- Natchez -- King's Tavern -- Magnolia Hall -- The Unquiet Spirits of Springfield -- Dunleith -- Longwood -- The Ghost of Glenburnie -- Stanton Hall -- Vicksburg -- Anchuca -- Lakemont.
Cedar Grove Mansion -- Duff Green Mansion -- Vicksburg National Military Park -- McRaven -- MISSOURI -- New Madrid -- The Hunter-Dawson House -- St. Louis -- The Lemp Mansion -- The Edgewood Children's Center -- The Gehm House -- The Cupples House -- The Whittemore House -- Jefferson Barracks -- Zombie Road -- Calvary Drive -- Bissell Mansion Restaurant -- Powell Symphony Hall -- Hannibal -- Rockcliffe Mansion -- Garden House Bed and Breakfast -- TENNESSEE -- Memphis -- Graceland -- Heartbreak Hotel -- Tennessee Brewery -- The University of Memphis -- The Memphis Convention and Visitors' Bureau -- Sauces Restaurant -- The Woodruff-Fontaine House -- Slave Haven / Burkle Estate -- Raleigh Cemetery -- The Orpheum Theater -- Ernestine and Hazel's -- The National Ornamental Metal Museum -- WISCONSIN -- West Salem -- The Hamlin Garland Homestead -- La Crosse -- The First Lutheran Church -- The Bodega Brew Pub -- The Hydrite Chemical Company -- Mineral Point -- The Walker House -- Genoa -- The Hawg Chasin' Ghost -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
Some of the nation's most compelling ghost stories owe their origin to "The Father of Waters." Ghosts along the Mississippi River is the first book-length collection of ghost tales from the small towns and bustling cities that have grown up along its banks. The states represented in this book include Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee, and Wisconsin. Unlike most collections of "true" ghost stories, Ghosts along the Mississippi River draws from the folk traditions of the northern and the southern United States. These tales are populated with Federal and Confederate soldiers, Native Indians, wealthy entrepreneurs, actors, college students, hotel owners, preachers, slaves, and planters. According to some paranormal investigators, the large number of ghost stories from the Mississippi's river towns, and from watery sites all over the world, are proof that large bodies of water are conductors of psychic energy. Granted, no concrete proof exists that there is a definite connection between the river and any actual ghosts or spiritual phenomena. What is indisputable, though, is the fact that the ghost stories included in Ghosts along the Mississippi River are an invaluable record of the values, dreams, fears, and lives of the people who have called the river home.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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