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A new American journey.
Author : Rinker Buck
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 42,22 MB
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1451659164
A new American journey.
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 42,37 MB
Release : 1876
Category : Mississippi River
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Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 39,61 MB
Release : 2020-11-20
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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 21,53 MB
Release : 1951
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780395273999
Follows the adventures of Minn, a three-legged snapping turtle, as she slowly makes her way from her birthplace at the headwaters of the Mississippi River to the mouth of river on the Gulf of Mexico.
Author : Eddy Harris
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 23,13 MB
Release : 1998-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780805059038
The true story of a young black man's quest: to canoe the length of the Mississippi River from Minnesota to New Orleans.
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Lerner Publications
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 49,28 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
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Mark Twain relates the boyhood experiences on the Mississippi that led to his ambition to be a river-boat pilot.
Author : Norma Watkins
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 15,83 MB
Release : 2011-05-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1604739789
Raised under the racial segregation that kept her family's southern country hotel afloat, Norma Watkins grows up listening at doors, trying to penetrate the secrets and silences of the black help and of her parents' marriage. Groomed to be an ornament to white patriarchy, she sees herself failing at the ideal of becoming a southern lady. The Last Resort, her compelling memoir, begins in childhood at Allison's Wells, a popular Mississippi spa for proper white people, run by her aunt. Life at the rambling hotel seems like paradise. Yet young Norma wonders at a caste system that has colored people cooking every meal while forbidding their sitting with whites to eat. Once integration is court-mandated, her beloved father becomes a stalwart captain in defense of Jim Crow as a counselor to fiery, segregationist Governor Ross Barnett. His daughter flounders, looking for escape. A fine house, wonderful children, and a successful husband do not compensate for the shock of Mississippi's brutal response to change, daily made manifest by the men in her home. A sexually bleak marriage only emphasizes a growing emotional emptiness. When a civil rights lawyer offers love and escape, does a good southern lady dare leave her home state and closed society behind? With humor and heartbreak, The Last Resort conveys at once the idyllic charm and the impossible compromises of a lost way of life.
Author : W. E. Clement
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,92 MB
Release : 2000-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781455610570
One day in 1852, The Princess, one of the finest steamboats afloat on the Mississippi River one hundred years ago was rounding the bend a Duncan�s Point about ten miles below Baton Rouge, when the boilers exploded with a frightful loss of life. The disaster occurred in front of the Conrad cottage where a descendant, the late G. Mather Conrad, of New Orleans, was born and lived as a youth. Lyle Saxon in his Old Louisiana tells of having known an old gentleman who remembered the awful holocaust. Then a little boy, this old gentleman was awaiting the return of his mother and father from New Orleans. He saw the Princess come around the bend and then turn in toward the bank. As he watched he heard a terrific explosion and saw the steamboat burst into flames. Mr. F. D. Conrad, plantation owner of that generation, so Saxon tells us, sent his slaves out in skiffs to rescue the men and women who crew struggling in the water. Many of them were frightfully scalded by steam from the broken boilers. Sheets were spread on the ground under the oak trees on the lawn and barrels of flour were broken open and the contents poured on the sheets. As the scalded people were pulled from the river, they were stripped and rolled in the flour, where they writhed and shrieked in agony. The little boy went from one sufferer to another seeking his father and mother. They were not there. They returned from New Orleans on a later boat, but he never forgot the anguish of his search.
Author : Thomas C. Buchanan
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 17,18 MB
Release : 2006-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0807876569
All along the Mississippi--on country plantation landings, urban levees and quays, and the decks of steamboats--nineteenth-century African Americans worked and fought for their liberty amid the slave trade and the growth of the cotton South. Offering a counternarrative to Twain's well-known tale from the perspective of the pilothouse, Thomas C. Buchanan paints a more complete picture of the Mississippi, documenting the rich variety of experiences among slaves and free blacks who lived and worked on the lower decks and along the river during slavery, through the Civil War, and into emancipation. Buchanan explores the creative efforts of steamboat workers to link riverside African American communities in the North and South. The networks African Americans created allowed them to keep in touch with family members, help slaves escape, transfer stolen goods, and provide forms of income that were important to the survival of their communities. The author also details the struggles that took place within the steamboat work culture. Although the realities of white supremacy were still potent on the river, Buchanan shows how slaves, free blacks, and postemancipation freedpeople fought for better wages and treatment. By exploring the complex relationship between slavery and freedom, Buchanan sheds new light on the ways African Americans resisted slavery and developed a vibrant culture and economy up and down America's greatest river.
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 20,41 MB
Release : 2021-01-18
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Life on the Mississippi (1883) is a memoir by Mark Twain of his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War. It is also a travel book, recounting his trip along the Mississippi River from St. Louis to New Orleans many years after the war.