Views on the Mississippi: The Photographs of Henry Peter Bosse

By Mark Neuzil

Book Overview

This volume brings together for the first time almost 100 of Bosse's most stunning images. A mapmaker and photographer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Bosse captures the Mississippi as it was being transformed form an untamed natural wonder to a modern commercial highway. 95 cyanotype photos. 36 illustrations.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816636478
• ISBN13: 9780816636471
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 3.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 9.5" x 11.4"

Customer Reviews

A must buy for any "River Rat"

Mark Neuzil and Merry Foresta have brought back to life with this book a Mississippi River that has long since disappeared below the brackish water of the Big Muddy. Henry Peter Bosse captured on film the Mississippi River that Mark Twain navigated as a river boat captain, the Mormans had to traverse leaving Nauvoo, IL for points west and that Lewis and Clark travelled on the way to the west coast. He did this at a time just before it disappeared below the backwaters of today's lock and dam system. Bosse's photographs, while valued at over $1,000,000 are priceless to those of us that have looked out over the river as it exists today and wondered "What lies below the surface of that water?" or "What did the river look like before the lock and dams were built"If you have ever lived on or loved "The River" this book is a must buy!