Views on the Mississippi: The Photography of Henry Peter Bosse

by Mark Neuzil

Book Overview

The first comprehensive collection of photographs by the foremost nineteenth-century photographer of the Mississippi River-now in paperback

As mapmaker and photographer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Henry Peter Bosse (1844-1903) took more than three hundred photographs of the Upper Mississippi River from 1883 to 1893, a time of unprecedented environmental and social change. Now recognized as the leading photographer...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816636486
• ISBN13: 9780816636488
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 10.9" x 9.1"

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!