A Rafting on the Mississip'
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
04.09.2001
Verlag
University Of Minnesota PressSeitenzahl
372
Maße (L/B/H)
20.7/14.1/2.2 cm
Gewicht
463 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-8166-3942-7
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 Tribune Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage SeriesNoch keine Bewertungen vorhanden
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