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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 lower Midwest. These huge log rafts were steered down the river by steamboat pilots whose skill and i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Russell, Charles Edward, 1860-1941
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, 2001.
Colección:Fesler-Lampert Minnesota heritage book series.
Temas:
Lumbering > Mississippi River Valley.
Log driving > Mississippi River.
Steam-navigation > Mississippi River.
Forêts > Exploitation > Mississippi, Vallée du.
Flottage > Mississippi (Fleuve)
Navigation à vapeur > Mississippi (Fleuve)
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > Forestry.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
Log driving
Lumbering
Steam-navigation
Earth & Environmental Sciences.
Forestry.
Mississippi River.
Mississippi (Fleuve)
Mississippi River
Mississippi River Valley
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  • CHAPTER I: THE BAD MEN FROM BLACK RIVER; CHAPTER II: HERE COMES THE STEAMBOAT; CHAPTER III: THE PINE-TREE ELDORADO; CHAPTER IV: THE LUMBERJACK; CHAPTER V: CAPTAIN HANKS COMES IN; CHAPTER VI: SO LOG WAS KING; CHAPTER VII: DAYS OF THE GREAT MIGRATION; CHAPTER VIII: THROUGH FIRE, FOG, AND CYCLONE; CHAPTER IX: THE SLUSH COOK FINDS A PICTURE; CHAPTER X: GOOD BUSINESS ON THE LAMARTINE; CHAPTER XI: AFTER TOM DOUGHTY WENT SMASH; CHAPTER XII: RAFTSMAN JIM AT HIS WORST; CHAPTER XIII: OTHER PHASES OF RAFTSMAN JIM; CHAPTER XIV: CAPTAIN PLUCK TAKES CHARGE; CHAPTER XV: THE PILOT AND HIS WAYS.

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