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A Rafting on the Mississip’

Om A Rafting on the Mississip’

An entertaining account of the golden era of lumber rafting, back in print!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 virtually treeless 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. "Russell deals with those decades during which the lumber business and the rafting of lumber grew and reached enormous proportions. But his story covers also the splendid phase of the river steamboat. Russell writes with a lively pen, and he has made a colorful and entertaining account." New York Times Book Review"Not a dull page in the book. Russell writes frontier history as it should be written." New York Herald TribuneFesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Series

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  • Språk:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9780816639427
  • Bindende:
  • Paperback
  • Sider:
  • 372
  • Utgitt:
  • 4. september 2001
  • Dimensjoner:
  • 142x205x22 mm.
  • Vekt:
  • 460 g.
  • BLACK NOVEMBER
Leveringstid: 2-4 uker
Forventet levering: 27. november 2024

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An entertaining account of the golden era of lumber rafting, back in print!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 virtually treeless 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. "Russell deals with those decades during which the lumber business and the rafting of lumber grew and reached enormous proportions. But his story covers also the splendid phase of the river steamboat. Russell writes with a lively pen, and he has made a colorful and entertaining account." New York Times Book Review"Not a dull page in the book. Russell writes frontier history as it should be written." New York Herald TribuneFesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Series

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