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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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Russell, Charles Edward.
Format:	eBook Electronic
Language:	English
Imprint:	Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2001.
Series:	Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage
Subjects:	Lumbering > Mississippi River Valley. Log driving > Mississippi River. Steam-navigation > Mississippi River. Mississippi River. Electronic books.
Local Note:	Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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Table of Contents:

Intro
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
A. UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER DISTANCES
B. A RAFTSMAN'S ORATORY
C. THE RIVER BARD
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