A-Rafting on the Mississip’.
Title:
A-Rafting on the Mississip’.
Author:
Russell, Charles Edward.
ISBN:
9780816693634
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (403 pages)
Series:
Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage
Contents:
CONTENTS -- CHAPTER I: THE BAD MEN FROM BLACK RIVER -- CHAPTER II: HERE COMES THE STEAMBOAT -- CHAPTER III: THE PINE-TREE ELDORADO -- CHAPTER IV: THE LUMBERJACK -- CHAPTER V: CAPTAIN HANKS COMES IN -- CHAPTER VI: SO LOG WAS KING -- CHAPTER VII: DAYS OF THE GREAT MIGRATION -- CHAPTER VIII: THROUGH FIRE, FOG, AND CYCLONE -- CHAPTER IX: THE SLUSH COOK FINDS A PICTURE -- CHAPTER X: GOOD BUSINESS ON THE LAMARTINE -- CHAPTER XI: AFTER TOM DOUGHTY WENT SMASH -- CHAPTER XII: RAFTSMAN JIM AT HIS WORST -- CHAPTER XIII: OTHER PHASES OF RAFTSMAN JIM -- CHAPTER XIV: CAPTAIN PLUCK TAKES CHARGE -- CHAPTER XV: THE PILOT AND HIS WAYS -- CHAPTER XVI: WHEN THE JULIA HIT THE BRIDGE -- CHAPTER XVII: THE STEERING-WHEEL GUILD -- CHAPTER XVIII: THE MINNIETTA IN A STORM -- CHAPTER XIX: MR. HILL, MEET CAPTAIN PLUCK -- CHAPTER XX: THE END FROM THE BEGINNING -- APPENDICES -- A. UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER DISTANCES -- B. A RAFTSMAN'S ORATORY -- C. THE RIVER BARD -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Abstract:
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 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.
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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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