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Father Mississippi /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Saxon, Lyle, 1891-1946
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York ; London : Century Co., [1927]
Subjects:
Mississippi River.
Floods > Mississippi River.
Mississippi River Valley.
Mississippi (Fleuve)
Inondations > Mississippi (Fleuve)
Mississippi, Vallée du.
Floods.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Plantation: A Child looks at the river
  • Plantation life
  • and a wedding
  • River music
  • "Aunts" and "Uncles"
  • The Mail boat
  • Crevasse
  • In the beginning: Before the white men came
  • The Name "Mississippi"
  • Discovery
  • Exploration
  • Iberville and Bienville
  • New Orleans
  • A Cat looks at a king
  • "I hear the tread of the pioneers": In the eighteenth century
  • Molly Glass, the murderess
  • A Woman pioneer
  • A Voyage down the river in 1817
  • Levees and steamboats: Old steamboat days
  • Commerce on the Mississippi
  • Levees
  • The 1927 flood: The Rising river
  • The Flood sweeps on
  • Episode: down the levee
  • What happened at New Orleans
  • Dynamite
  • Refugees
  • Episode: Acadians in the flood
  • The Way of the river
  • And The waters receded
  • Some recent opinions on flood control
  • The Work of the American Red Cross in the 1927 flood.