River fever : adventures on the Mississippi, 1969-1972 : a memoir /

Beginning in the spring of 1969, Huckleberry Finn inspired a question. Could you build a raft, float down the Mississippi River to New Orleans and on the way learn something about America and its peoples? Will Bagley, a vagrant longhair and future prize-winning western historian, and his friends cou...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bagley, Will, 1950- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Salt Lake City : Signature Books, 2019.
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • The fisherman
  • The rivers of America
  • Revolution in the air
  • Black Hawk, John Adams, and the Sunset Marina
  • Big river
  • Free and easy and comfortable
  • New Orleans or bust
  • Old devil river
  • When you learn to ramble, you learn to lose
  • Lone Star Peak
  • The strange mysteriousness
  • Tornadoes
  • Papoose
  • Southbound
  • Montezuma Bend
  • All the rivers run into the sea.