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River We Have Wrought
University of Minnesota Press 2003; US$ 57.00The River We Have Wrought is a landmark history of the upper Mississippi from early European exploration through the completion of a navigable channel and a system of locks and dams. John Anfinson examines how politics has shaped the landscapes of the Upper Midwest and how taming the Mississippi has affected economic sustainability, river ecology,... more...
La Salle and His Legacy
University Press of Mississippi 2012; US$ 25.00To most people it probably seems that La Salle and his men, permanently fixed in the pantheon of explorers of the North American continent, need little further introduction. The fact is that this whole early period of exploration and colonization by the French in the southeastern United States has received far less scholarly attention than the corresponding... more...
Pottery and Chronology at Angel
University of Alabama Press 2000; US$ 34.95By analyzing the pottery found at a well-known archaeological site, Hilgeman constructs the long-awaited timeline for the rise and decline of this ancient society. Located near present-day Evansville, Indiana, the Angel site is one of the important archaeological towns associated with prehistoric Mississippian society. More than two million artifacts... more...
Mississippi Harmony
Palgrave Macmillan 2002; US$ 17.00The experiences of the rural all-black town of Harmony, Mississippi, as told in the voice of Winson Hudson, an extraordinary woman who led Harmony in its fight for racial equality during the Jim Crow and civil rights eras. more...
Daily Life along the Mississippi
Greenwood Publishing Group 2007; US$ 50.00Rich thematic chapters explore the daily lives of Americans living along the Mississippi River, from pre-Columbian times to the present. more...
Time's River
University of Alabama Press 2009; US$ 49.95This volume stands as a key general resource for archaeologists working in the region extending from Louisiana through Mississippi north to Missouri and Kentucky, and it represents an opportunity to influence for decades a large part of the archaeological work to take place in the Southeast. The book responds to a need for a comprehensive... more...
Grand Excursions on the Upper Mississippi River
University of Iowa Press 2009; US$ 24.00n June 1854 the Grand Excursion celebrated in festive style the completion of the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad to the Mississippi River. Hundreds of dignitaries including newspaper editors and other journalists; politicians; academics, writers and artists; business and industry leaders; and railroad officials were among those who traveled by rail... more...
Wicked River
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 15.95From award-winning journalist Lee Sandlin comes a riveting look at one of the most colorful, dangerous, and peculiar places in America?s historical landscape: the strange, wonderful, and mysterious Mississippi River of the nineteenth century. Beginning in the early 1800s and climaxing with the siege of Vicksburg in 1863, Wicked River takes us... more...
Mostly Mississippi
University of Minnesota Press 2000; US$ 54.00A 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 Mormo more...









