2 options
A-rafting on the Mississip' / Charles Edward Russell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Russell, Charles Edward, 1860-1941.
- Series:
- Fesler-Lampert Minnesota heritage book series.
- The Fesler-Lampert Minnesota heritage book series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lumbering--Mississippi River Valley.
- Lumbering.
- Log driving--Mississippi River.
- Log driving.
- Steam-navigation--Mississippi River.
- Steam-navigation.
- Mississippi River.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 357 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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; INDEX
- Notes:
- Originally published: New York : Century Co., c1928.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-9363-3
- OCLC:
- 476096338
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.