A Rafting on the Mississip'

by Charles Edward Russell

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816639426
• ISBN13: 9780816639427
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.1"