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Author:

Havighurst, Walter, 1901-1994.

Title:

Voices on the river : the story of the Mississippi waterways / Walter Havighurst.

Edition:

1st University of Minnesota Press ed.

Publisher:

University of Minnesota Press,

Copyright Date:

2003

Description:

vii, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Shipping--Mississippi River.
Mississippi River--Navigation.

Notes:

Originally published: New York : Macmillan, 1964. Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-297) and index.

Contents:

Index. Prologue : blow for a landmark -- 24. Mississippi sunrise -- 2. Great river -- 3. All the way to Shawneetown -- 4. Six men and an earthquake -- [pt. 2]. Two thousand packets -- 5. Smoke on the rivers -- 6. Captain shreve was there -- 7. Travelers' tales -- 8. River song -- 9. Voyage to exile -- 10. Horizon north -- 11. The way to the future city -- 12. "Cotton pile!" -- 13. Jim Bludso's ghost -- 14. Mark Twain, pilot -- [pt. 3]. The chained river -- 15. The fleet at Pittsburg Landing -- 16. Eads's ironclads -- 17. Guns at Vicksburg -- [pt. 4]. Indian summer -- 18. The splendid packets -- 19. The mountain trip -- 20. Raftsman Jim -- 21. A century of showboats -- [pt. 5]. Towboat river -- 22. Dayboards, buoys and beacons -- 23. The new waterway -- 24. Down to New Orleans -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Index.

Summary:

"Voices on the River relates two centuries of tales of famous steamboats and of the men who piloted them, from the renowned Mark Twain to the trailblazing Captain Henry Shreve. The book portrays roustabouts on the main deck, passengers in plush cabins, pilots at the big steering wheel, and government engineers at work in shifting channels. It shows Native American tribes carried to exile; soldiers transported to army posts; artists, scientists, and adventurers on their way to wild country; and immigrants thronging river landings where the inland cities rose." "Voices on the River follows frontier commerce up the Mississippi River and its two major tributaries, the Ohio and the Missouri. It tells of steamboat speed records, races, and disasters, and of the growing nation in the vast Midwest. This book gathers memories of a wide variety of Mississippi characters to provide an engrossing portrait of the expanse of river life."--BOOK JACKET.

Series:

The Fesler-Lampert Minnesota heritage book series

ISBN:

9780816641772
0816641773

OCLC:

(OCoLC)51336422

LCCN:

2002045405

Locations:

UPAX334 -- Upper Iowa University - Henderson-Wilder Library (Fayette)