A Summer in the Wilderness Embracing a Canoe Voyage Up the Mississippi and Around Lake Superior

by Charles Lanman

Book Overview

SAINT LOUIS, June, 1846. The River Queen, as Saint Louis is sometimes called, is looked upon as the threshold leading to the wild and romantic region of the Upper Mississippi. It was founded in the year seventeen hundred and sixty-four, by two Frenchmen, named Laclade and Chouteau, who were accompanied by about thirty Creoles. The first steamer which landed here came from New Orleans in the year eighteen hundred and nineteen; but the number now belonging...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1519371624
• ISBN13: 9781519371621
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 110 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"