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A-Rafting on the Mississip'

A-Rafting on the Mississip'

by Charles Edward Russell

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 424 PAGES

Aboard a lumber raft was a common way to travel and transport goods along rivers in the nineteenth century (just look at Huck Finn). Charles Edward Russell, a Pulitzer Prize winner and cofounder of the NAACP, details 70 years of lumber rafting on the Upper Mississippi in this volume.  (USM44, $18.95)


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