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A Rafting on the Mississip’

Charles Edward Russell author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of Minnesota Press

Published:4th Sep '01

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

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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 Series

ISBN: 9780816639427

Dimensions: 206mm x 140mm x 23mm

Weight: unknown

372 pages