The lance, cross and canoe : the flatboat, rifle and plough in the valley of the Mississippi, the backwoods hunter and settler, the flatboatman, the saddle-bags parson, the stump orator and lawyer, as the pioneers of its civilization : its great leaders, wit and humor, remarkable extent and wealth of resource, its past achievements and glorious future / by W.H. Milburn, D.D., Chaplain U.S. Congress, author of "The pioneers, preachers and people of the Mississippi Valley," "The rifle ace and saddle-bags," "Ten years of preacher life," "What a blind man saw in Europe," etc., etc., etc. ; nearly 200 striking engravings, including maps, portraits, scences and incidents from original designs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Milburn, William Henry, 1823-1903, author.

Series:

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Religion, Reform, and Society.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Religion, Reform, and Society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mississippi River Valley--History.

Mississippi River Valley.

History.

Frontier and pioneer life--Mississippi River Valley.

Frontier and pioneer life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 33-696 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits, plans, facsimile.

Place of Publication:

New York ; St. Louis : N.D. Thompson Publishing Company, [1892]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Reproduction of the original from the Lost Cause Press.

OCLC:

904789474