A-Rafting on the Mississip’.

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 i...

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Author / Creator: Russell, Charles Edward.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2001.
Series:Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage
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