An entertaining account of the golden era of lumber rafting, back in print! 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 river's many hazards were legendary. Charles Edward Russell, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, chronicles the ...
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An entertaining account of the golden era of lumber rafting, back in print! 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 river's many hazards were legendary. Charles Edward Russell, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, chronicles the history and river lore of seventy years of lumber rafting. "Russell deals with those decades during which the lumber business and the rafting of lumber grew and reached enormous proportions. But his story covers also the splendid phase of the river steamboat. Russell writes with a lively pen, and he has made a colorful and entertaining account." New York Times Book Review "Not a dull page in the book. Russell writes frontier history as it should be written." New York Herald Tribune Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Series
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Standard-sized.
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Very Good. Size: 5x0x8; tight, uncreased spine, pages clear and bright, shelf and edge wear, corners bumped, the gray cover, previous owners name and date written on flyleaf, packaged in cardboard box for shipment, tracking on U.S. orders.
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VG. Stated first printing bound in blue cloth with a small picture pasted on the front board. Pictorial map endpapers and black & white photos. A Very Good copy. Rubs to the corners and spine tips. Some dusting to the front cover's upper edge and dust spotting to the rear cover. The spine is darkened and the lettering is faded. Former owner's mailing l abel is on the front fly leaf's upper right corner. Mild tanning to th e pages.
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Very Good. 1928. Hardcover. Clloth with pictorial inset. Octavo. xii & 357 pp. Decorative endpapers. Mild shelf wear to boards. Bookplate and previous owner's inscriptions to front flyleaves. Altogether a copy in Very Good condition. Very Good. (Subject: Americana & Regional History).