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Old Man River: The Mississippi River in North American History

Old Man River: The Mississippi River in North American History

Schneider, Paul

Paperback

General United StatesRegional: Midwest

Publisher Price: $28.99

ISBN10: 1250053102
ISBN13: 9781250053107
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: Oct 28 2014
Pages: 416
Weight: 0.80
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.10
Language: English

Old Man River, Paul Schneider's exploration of America's great waterway--taking the reader from the Mississippi River's origins to its polluted present and tracing its prehistory, geology, and cultural and literary histories--is as vast as its subject.

The fascinating cast of characters includes the French and Spanish explorers de Soto, Marquette and Joliet, and the incomparable La Salle; George Washington fighting his first battle in an effort to secure the watershed; the birth of jazz and blues; and literary greats like Melville, Dickens, Trollope, and, of course, Mark Twain.

Pirates and riverbats, gamblers and slaves, hustlers and landscape painters, loggers and catfishers, tourists and missionaries: The Mississippi is a river of stories and myth. It's Paul Robeson sitting on a cotton bale, Daniel Boone floating on a flatboat, and Paul Bunyan cutting trees in the neighborhood of Little House in the Big Woods.

Half-devastated product of American ingenuity, half-magnificent natural wonder, it is impossible to imagine America without the Mississippi.

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