| | Article | Requires cookie* | | 1 | Title: | Journal of a voyage from St. Louis to the Falls of St. Anthony, in 1819
| | | | Parent: | State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Report and collections ... 1869-1872. Madison, 1872. 23 cm. v. 6, p. [188]-219
| | | | Creator: | Forsyth, Thomas, 1771-1833 | | | | Publication: | | | | | Notes: | "[Letter from] Maj. Thomas Forsyth to Gov. Wm. Clark" (dated: St. Louis, Sept. 23, 1819): p. 215-219. | | | | Call #: | F41B W811Co v.6 | | | | Extent: | p. [188]-219 23 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Mississippi River -- Description and travel
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| Article | Requires cookie* | | 2 | Title: | James Kirke Paulding on the Mississippi, 1842
| | | | Parent: | J. Miss. hist. Journal of Mississippi history. [Jackson, Miss., Mississippi Dept. of Archives and History in cooperation with the Mississippi Historical Society]. v. 10, no. 4, Oct. 1948, p. 317-344
| | | | Creator: | Paulding, James Kirke, 1778-1860 | | | | Publication: | | | | | Call #: | F24D J68 v.10, no.4 | | | | Extent: | | | | | Subjects: | Mississippi River -- Description and travel
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 3 | Title: | Fifty years on the Mississippi: or, Gould's history of river navigation. Containing a history of the introduction of steam as a propelling power on ocean, lakes and rivers--the first steamboats on the Hudson, the Delaware, and the Ohio rivers--navigation of western rivers before the introduction of steam--character of the early navigators--description of first steamboats--steamboat New Orleans in 1811, and sixty consecutive boats, when and where built--their effect upon the settlement of the valley of the Mississippi--character and speed of boats at different periods--appropriations by Congress for the improvement of western water ways-- floods in the Mississippi valley for 150 years--Mississippi river commission and its work. Rapid increase and decline of river transportation. Causes of the decline--destruction of steamboats on western waters--biographies of prominent steamboatmen
| | | | Creator: | Gould, Emerson W., b. 1811 | | | | Publication: | Nixon-Jones printing co, Saint Louis,1889. | | | | Call #: | F25NB G696 | | | | Extent: | xv, 749 p. front., illus. (incl. ports.) 24 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Steam-navigation -- Mississippi River Valley | Mississippi River -- Description and travel
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 4 | Title: | Description of Banvard's panorama of the Mississippi river: painted on three miles of canvas: exhibiting a view of country 1200 miles in length, extending from the mouth of the Missouri river to the city of New Orleans; being by far the largest picture ever executed by man
| | | | Creator: | Banvard, John, 1815-1891 | | | | Publication: | J. Putnam, printer, Boston,1847. | | | | Call #: | Pam. B1249 | | | | Extent: | 48 p. 23 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Panoramas | Mississippi River -- Description and travel
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 5 | Title: | Life on the Mississippi
| | | | Creator: | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 | | | | | Wager, Willis, 1911- | | | | | Benton, Thomas Hart, 1889-1975 | | | | Publication: | Heritage Press, New York,[1959, c1944] | | | | Notes: | Author's pseud., Mark Twain, at head of title. The special contents of this edition copyright, 1944, by The Limited Editions Club. | | | | Call #: | F25J C625B | | | | Extent: | xxviii, 418 p. illus., plates (part col.) 25 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Mississippi River -- Description and travel | Mississippi River Valley -- Social life and customs
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 10 | Title: | The king of rivers: with a chart of our slave and free soil territory
| | | | Creator: | Montgomery, Cora, 1807-1878 | | | | | Democratic Party (N.Y.) General Committee of Young Men. | | | | Publication: | C. Wood, New-York,1850. | | | | Notes: | "This article, which appeared in the Democratic review for December, 1849, is one of the concluding chapters of a work ... now in preparation ... entitled 'Our mother land'. It is published by the Democratic Committee, with the consent of the author." 5,000 copies published by the "Democratic Republican Young Men's General Committee, Tammany Hall." | | | | Call #: | Pam. C2346 | | | | Extent: | 19 p. map. 23 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Slavery -- United States -- Controversial literature -- 19th century | Mississippi River -- Description and travel
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 11 | Title: | Conclins' new river guide, or, A gazetteer of all the towns on the western waters: containing sketches of the cities, towns, and countries bordering on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and their principal tributaries; together with their population, products, commerce, &c., &c., &c.; and many interesting events of history connected with them
| | | | Creator: | Conclin, George. | | | | Publication: | J.A. & U.P. James, Cincinnati,1853. | | | | Notes: | At head of title: A book for all travelers. With minor exceptions this is a reprint of the 1848 ed. | | | | Call #: | F25J C744C 1853 | | | | Extent: | 128, [4] p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Mississippi River -- Description and travel | Ohio River -- Description and travel | Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel -- Gazetteers
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 13 | Title: | Down the great river: embracing an account of the discovery of the true source of the Mississippi, together with views, descriptive and pictorial, of the cities, towns, villages and scenery on the banks of the river
| | | | Creator: | Glazier, Willard W., 1841-1905 | | | | Publication: | Hubbard brothers, Philadelphia,1888. | | | | Call #: | F25J G552 | | | | Extent: | xxvi, 27-443, liii p. incl. front. (port) plates, maps. fold. map. 20 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Ojibwa Indians | Canoes and canoeing -- Mississippi River | Mississippi River -- Description and travel | Mississippi River -- Sources
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 16 | Title: | Narrative journal of travels through the northwestern regions of the United States: extending from Detroit through the great chain of American lakes to the sources of the Mississippi River, performed as a member of the expedition under Governor Cass in the year 1820
| | | | Creator: | Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864 | | | | Publication: | E. & E. Hosford, Albany,1821. | | | | Notes: | Added t.p., engraved. Includes index. | | | | Call #: | F33J S372 | | | | Extent: | 419, [4] p., [22] p. of plates (some fold.) : ill., fold. map ; 22 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Northwest, Old -- Description and travel | Great Lakes -- Description and travel | Mississippi River -- Description and travel
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 19 | Title: | Travels in Wisconsin
| | | | Creator: | Carver, Jonathan, 1710-1780 | | | | | Lettsom, John Coakley, 1744-1815 | | | | Publication: | Printed by Harper & bros, New York,1838. | | | | Notes: | First edition, London, 1778, published under title: Travels through the interior parts of North America, in the years 1766, 1767, and 1768. The third edition, London, 1781, was edited by John Coakley Lettsom. | | | | Call #: | F42J C331T5 | | | | Extent: | xxxii, [33]-376 p. : front. (port.), plates, 2 fold. maps ; 23 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Indians of North America -- Northwestern States | Northwestern States -- Description and travel | Mississippi River -- Description and travel | Minnesota -- Description and travel
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 20 | Title: | Travels through the interior parts of North-America in the years 1766, 1767, and 1768
| | | | Creator: | Carver, Jonathan, 1710-1780 | | | | | Lettsom, John Coakley, 1744-1815 | | | | Publication: | Printed for the author, and sold by J. Walter [etc.], London,1778. | | | | Notes: | First edition. Carver's Travels as printed was probably the work of Dr. John Coakley Lettsom. An article on Carver and his book may be found in American Historical Review, January 1906, v. 11, p. 287-302. Two fold. maps, and plate #2 replaced by Xerox copies. Later published under title: Three years travel through the interior parts of North-America. | | | | Call #: | F42J C331 Vault | | | | Extent: | 10 p. Á., xvi, [17]-543, [1] p. plates. 24 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Indians of North America -- Northwestern States | Northwestern States -- Description and travel | Mississippi River -- Description and travel | Minnesota -- Description and travel
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