A-rafting on the Mississip' / Charles Edward Russell.

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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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Russell, Charles Edward, 1860-1941
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, 2001.
Series:	Fesler-Lampert Minnesota heritage book series.
Subjects:	Lumbering > Mississippi River Valley. Log driving > Mississippi River. Steam-navigation > Mississippi River. Mississippi River. Log driving. Lumbering. Steam-navigation. Mississippi River Valley.