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Canada History To 1763 (New France) Mississippi River Mississippi River History Mississippi River Valley History Mississippi River Valley History To 1803 Mississippi River Valley History To 1803 Juvenile literature North America History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Rivers Rivers Regulation West (U.S.) HistoryUpholt, Boyce
Summary: In this landmark work of natural history, a journalist tells the epic story of the Mississippi River and the centuries of efforts to control it, which have damaged its once-vibrant ecosystems, carrying readers along the river's last remaining backchannels and exploring how scientists hope to restore what has been lost.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2024
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Summary: "The eagerly awaited return of master American storyteller Rinker Buck, Life on the Mississippi is an epic, enchanting blend of history and adventure in which Buck builds a wooden flatboat from the grand 'flatboat era' of the 1800s and sails it down the Mississippi River, illuminating the forgotten past of America's first western frontier. Seven years ago, readers around the country fell in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 977 BUCCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977 BUCAmbrose, Stephen E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2002
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 977 AMBBarry, John M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.032 BARKlinkenberg, Dean
Summary: "The Mississippi River is an American icon, yet few of us really understand the river's fundamental essence-its natural world. One quarter of North American fish species are native to the Mississippi. Over three hundred species of birds migrate along the Mississippi River. The river's wetlands, prairies, and bluffs support mammals and insects. Diverse plant communities thrive because of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.77 KLISummary: Tom Bodett explores the trails that extended America's frontiers. He follows the footsteps and wagon ruts of rugged pioneers, dauntless homesteaders, reclusive mountain men, and stop-at-nothing gold hunters as they explored, settled, and worked the new land.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Questar 2002
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Sprague, Marshall.
Summary: Recounts how explorers discovered the Mississippi region and discusses the political, economic, and social factors that led to the Louisiana Purchase.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1974
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.46 SPRSummary: "The plow that broke the plains" depicts the social and economic history of the Great Plains from the settlement of the prairies by cattlemen and farmers through the World War I boom to drought and depression. "The river" traces life in the Mississippi River Valley during the previous 150 years, showing the consequences of sharecropping, soil exhaustion, unchecked erosion and floods, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Naxos 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PLOBauer, Marion Dane.
Summary: Briefly describes the geography of the Misssissippi River, along with some history of the transportation and commerce associated with the river.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2007
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Contents: Midstream, April 27, 1865 -- Getting there -- War -- The raids -- Somewhere, the little brother -- Captured -- Cahaba -- Andersonville -- Going off alone -- Release -- Sold up the river -- The disaster -- In a dead man's pocket -- The beginning of the end -- Home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.771 HUFWatkins, T. H. (Tom H.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1974
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977 WATEnglar, Mary.
Summary: Provides the history of French Colonies in America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Compass Point Books 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.018 ENGBarber, John Warner
Summary: "Barber and Howe go west! This 1868 collaboration from American historians John Warner Barber (1798-1885) and Henry Howe (1816-1893) surveys twenty-one states (Alabama, Arkansas, California, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, Ohio, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia, and Wisconsin) and nine territories...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New England Historic Genealogical Society 2019
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 973 BARHarmon, Daniel E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 2001
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB LA SALLE HARHarmon, Daniel E.
Summary: Describes the journey of two Frenchman and five other men down the Mississippi River to discover the river flows into the Gulf of Mexico not the Pacific Ocean as believed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 2002
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 977.01 HARWoodworth, Steven E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kansas 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7462 WOOCheng, Bill.
Summary: Convinced that he is cursed after the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, twenty-year-old Robert Chatham, who is constantly followed by trouble, finally shakes his demons until he is forced to make an impossible choice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHEPark, Benjamin E.
Summary: "An extraordinary story of faith and violence in nineteenth-century America, based on previously confidential documents from the Mormon Church. Compared to the Puritans, Mormons have rarely gotten their due, often treated as fringe cultists or marginalized polygamists unworthy of serious examination. In Kingdom of Nauvoo, Benjamin E. Park excavates the brief, tragic life of a lost Mormon city,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 289.3 PARParkman, Francis
Contents: v. 1. Pioneers of France in the New World. The Jesuits of North America in the seventeenth century. La Salle and the discovery of the Great West. The old regime in Canada -- v. 2. Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV. A half-century of conflict. Montcalm and Wolfe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc. 1983
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 971.01 PARParkman, Francis
Contents: v. 1. Pioneers of France in the New World. The Jesuits of North America in the seventeenth century. La Salle and the discovery of the Great West. The old râegime in Canada -- v. 2. Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV. A half-century of conflict. Montcalm and Wolfe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc. 1983
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Amer NF Parkman v.2Dana, Juliette Starr
Contents: "Worth a Pilgrimage": July 15-July 20, New York State -- "The Mad Tumult": July 21-July 23, Niagara -- "Lost in the Distance": July 23-July 28, Lakes Erie and Huron, Detroit -- "A Fatiguing Scramble": July 28-July 31, Mackinac -- "Wild Looking Places": August 1-August 3, Sault Ste. Marie -- "Boundary of Civilization": August 4-August 15, Lake Superior -- "Very Rough": August 16-August 22, Lake...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.704 DANTwain, Mark
Summary: Presents the adventures of a mischievous young boy named Tom and his friends growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TWAJahren, Hope
Summary: "In his classic work Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain briefly introduces "Mary Jane, the red-headed one." In no time Mary Jane becomes the girl Huck thinks about "a many and a many million times." Now author Hope Jahren has created for Mary Jane a life as vivid and compelling as Huck's. These pages will show you the real Mary Jane. A girl on her own dangerous, unpredictable journey...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC JAHSummary: From land, boat, and sky. Above and below the water. From the point of view of the animals and people who are found there, we will show these rivers as they have never been seen before, highlighting each river's very own unique atmosphere and character so that each episode will have its own mood. This series will find new perspectives to cover these amazing waterways. Using the latest in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019