[Free] A Rafting on the Mississip’ (Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage)
• Charles Edward Russell •
| #5041148 in Books | Univ Of Minnesota Press | 2001-09-04 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.12 x.90 x5.50l,1.02 | File Name: 0816639426 | 372 pages |
||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Writing to rival Mark Twain|By J. OBRIANT|Charles Edward Russell's time on the river occurred decades after the four short years when Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) was in the pilothouse. Like Twain (and like George B. Merrick, too), Russell began working for a newspaper in a river town, later went on the river as a steamboatman, and finally settled on a career as a writer.
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 lor...
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