Voices on the River: The Story of the Mississippi Waterways

Read * Voices on the River: The Story of the Mississippi Waterways PDF by ^ Walter Havighurst eBook or Kindle ePUB Online free. Voices on the River: The Story of the Mississippi Waterways Voices on the River -Havighurst, a must have book Nearly 80 years living by or near the Mississippi river, and this is the book I prize the most. It is well written, contains a good bibliography for each chapter, and takes you through early river history and riverboating. From eyewitness accounts of the New Madrid earthquake, the beginnings of steamboating, through the Civil War and the floating palace era of steamboating into the 20th century. The old photograph reprints are fascinating, and yo

Author	:	Walter Havighurst
Rating	:	4.98 (637 Votes)
Asin	:	0785818383
Format Type	:	paperback
Number of Pages	:	332 Pages
Publish Date	:	2015-08-06
Language	:	English

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Voices on the River -Havighurst, a must have book Nearly 80 years living by or near the Mississippi river, and this is the book I prize the most. It is well written, contains a good bibliography for each chapter, and takes you through early river history and riverboating. From eyewitness accounts of the New Madrid earthquake, the beginnings of steamboating, through the Civil War and the floating palace era of steamboating into the 20th century. The old photograph reprints are fascinating, and you make the acqauintance of great steamboat men such as Manuel Lisa, Joseph Labarge, Captain Grant Marsh, and Mark twain. Grant Marsh captained the FAR WEST which took the few survivo. "Voices on the River" according to alpro1. This one of the finest non-fiction reads I've come across in a long time. Mr. Havighurst's style is American, factual, well researched and very readable. He succeeds in bringing the many people and riverboats who brought the Mississippi, Ohio and Missouri Rivers to life, as well as the many branches of those rivers. This is not just history, this is entertainment writ large. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in American History.

A longtime professor of English at Miami University, Walter Havighurst (1901-1994) grew up in Wisconsin and was a prolific and passionate writer of regional history and fiction.

About the Author A longtime professor of English at Miami University, Walter Havighurst (1901-1994) grew up in Wisconsin and was a prolific and passionate writer of regional history and fiction.

This volume 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.