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A-Rafting on the Mississip (Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Book Series)
ARafting on the Mississip - Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Book Series
Author: Charles Edward Russell
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 riv...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780816639427
ISBN-10: 0816639426
Pages: 424
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Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Book Type: Paperback
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