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Mostly Mississippi
A Very Damp Adventure
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In 1925, Harold Speakman and his new wife, Frances Russell Lindsay Speakman, journeyed down the entire Mississippi River, from the headwaters in Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico, on a twenty-foot houseboat. A classic American travel narrative that captures the soul of the river, Mostly Mississippi features lyrical descriptions of encounters with archetypal characters, landscapes, and experiences. The Speakmans meet lumberjacks in northern Minnesota and Mormons at Nauvoo, Illinois, as well as roustabouts, hoboes, farmers, drifters, Southern grandees, Native Americans, collegians thirsting for the real world, and convicts. They also meet William Alexander Percy, the Poet of the Delta; Laura Frazer, the inspiration for Mark Twains Becky Thatcher; and the prototypical lady from Dubuque as described by the New Yorker.Illustrated by Harold Speakmans paintings and sketches and Russell Speakmans delightful drawings, Mostly Mississippi captures the deepening emotional bond of a newly married couple embarked on a grand adventure.
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University of Minnesota Press; February 2000
404 pages; ISBN 9780816696505
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404 pages; ISBN 9780816696505
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Subject categories
- Academic > History > United States local history > Gulf States. West Florida > Mississippi River and Valley. Middle West
- Sports & Recreation > Canoeing
- Sports & Recreation > Boating
- Travel > United States
- Reference > Consumer Guides
- History > United States
- History > Modern
- Literary Collections
- Social Science
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0816696500
9780816644384
9780816696505