A-Rafting on the Mississip' / / Charles Edward Russell
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| Autore: |
Russell Charles Edward <1860-1941.>
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| Titolo: |
A-Rafting on the Mississip' / / Charles Edward Russell
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| Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2001 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xii, 357 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits |
| Disciplina: | 634.9/8/0977 |
| 634.980977 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Lumbering - Mississippi River Valley |
| Log driving - Mississippi River | |
| Steam navigation - Mississippi River | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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; INDEX | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | A-Rafting on the Mississip |
| ISBN: | 0-8166-9363-3 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910784401403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Fesler-Lampert Minnesota heritage book series.