| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xiii, 394 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
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text rdacontent |
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unmediated rdamedia |
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volume rdacarrier |
| Note |
"A John Macrae book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [353]-379) and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue -- Prelude: The American watershed -- Book one. River of giants : continents collide, glaciers recede, mastodons bellow and humans arrive -- Ice on the rocks -- The Missouri leviathan -- Broken arrows -- Mammoth season -- Book two. River of mounds -- The rise and fall, and rise and fall, and rise of Native America -- Among the effigies -- Poverty point -- 35,000 pearls -- Among the Mississippians -- The great serpent -- Book three. River of fortune -- The Spanish exit, the French arrive, the Iroquois take action -- Bonjour Great Khan -- In the Iroquois longhouse -- The American bottom -- The Illinois Country -- Adrift -- The incomparable La Salle -- Nous sommes tous sauvages -- The wrath -- If the river don't rise -- Book four. River of empires -- The English enter, the French exit, the Iroquois negotiate, and the Americans take over -- The scramble for the Forks -- The half king -- Adieu New France -- The American watershed -- Allegheny mornings -- Book six. Life on the Mississippi -- Flatboats and keelboats, steamboats and showboats, slave boats and warships -- Down a lazy river -- I long to see you -- Up the wicked river -- All aboard -- Down below -- Blood on the tracks -- Anaconda -- Down in flames -- Book seven. On the lake of the engineers -- The mouth -- All the lists of Clay -- Old Man River. |
| Source |
NBK 9/13 PPL |
| Subject |
Mississippi River -- History.
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River life -- Mississippi River -- History.
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Mississippi River Valley -- History.
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North America -- History.
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| ISBN |
9780805091366 |
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080509136X |
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