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• Canoes and canoeing
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• Mostly Mississippi, by Harold Speakman (HTML and page images at LOC)

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• The Canoe, and The Flying Proa: or, Cheap Cruising and Safe Sailing, by W. L. Alden
  • canoe part: illustrated HTML at wcha.org
  • flying proa part: illustrated HTML at thecheappages.com
• The Canoe Aurora: A Cruise from the Adirondacks to the Gulf (1885), by Charles A. Neidé (illustrated HTML at thecheappages.com)
• Canoe Cruising and Camping (1897), by Perry D. Frazer (illustrated HTML at thecheappages.com)
• Canoe Handling (based on the second edition, 1888), by C. Bowyer Vaux (illustrated HTML at thecheappages.com)
• Canoe Handling (third edition, 1901), by C. Bowyer Vaux (frame-dependent HTML at Wayback Machine)
• The Canoe: Its Selection, Care and Use (1914), by Robert E. Pinkerton (illustrated HTML at wcha.org)
• Canoeing with the Cree, by Eric Sevareid (page images at loc.gov)
• Practical Canoeing: A Treatise on the Management and Handling of Canoes, by Tiphys
  • illustrated HTML at thecheappages.com
  • page images at Google; US access only
• Canoe and Boat Building: A Complete Manual for Amateurs (fourth edition; New York: Forest and Stream Pub. Co., 1889), by William Picard Stephens (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Canoeing, Sailing and Motor Boating (New York: George H. Doran Co., c1919), by Warren H. Miller
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Historic Waterways: Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1888), by Reuben Gold Thwaites (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Voyage of the Paper Canoe: A Geographical Journey of 2500 Miles, From Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico, During the Years 1874-5, by Nathaniel H. Bishop
  • illustrated HTML at Robroy
  • Gutenberg text

• A Thousand Miles in the Rob Roy Canoe on Rivers and Lakes of Europe (London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1866), by John MacGregor (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Girls of Central High on Lake Luna: or, The Crew That Won (New York : Grosset and Dunlap, ca. 1914), by Gertrude W. Morrison (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The High School Boys' Canoe Club: or, Dick and Co.'s Rivals on Lake Pleasant, by H. Irving Hancock (Gutenberg text)
• Their Canoe Trip (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1889), by Mary P. Wells Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Girl Scouts' Canoe Trip (New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1922), by Edith Lavell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Boy Scouts on Swift River (Philadelphia: Penn Pub. Co., 1922), by Thornton W. Burgess, illust. by C. S. Corson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Nessmuk's Adirondack Letters, by George Washington Sears, ed. by Eric Eldred (HTML at dyndns.info)

• Voyage of the Paper Canoe: A Geographical Journey of 2500 Miles, From Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico, During the Years 1874-5, by Nathaniel H. Bishop
  • illustrated HTML at Robroy
  • Gutenberg text

• High, Wide, and Handsome: The River Journals of Norman D. Nevills (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2005), by Norman D. Nevills, ed. by Roy Webb, contrib. by Brad Dimock (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• The Improvement of the Lower Mississippi River for Flood Control and Navigation (3 volumes in 1; Vicksburg, MS: U.S. Waterways Experiment Station, 1932), by Dabney Otey Elliott (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Memorial to Congress to Secure an Adequate Appropriation for a Prompt and Thorough Improvement of the Mississippi River, by Mississippi River Improvement Convention (page images at MOA)
• Proceedings of the River Improvement Convention, Held in St. Louis February 12 & 13, 1867, by Mississippi River Improvement Convention (page images at MOA)
• Report Upon the Physics and Hydraulics of the Mississippi River; Upon the Protection of the Alluvial Region Against Overflow; and Upon the Deepening of the Mouths (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1861), by A. A. Humphreys and Henry L. Abbot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Summary Narrative of an Exploratory Expedition to the Sources of the Mississippi River, in 1820, Resumed and Completed, by the Discovery of its Origin in Itasca Lake (Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo and Co., 1855), by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Exploratory Travels Through the Western Territories of North America (London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1811), by Zebulon Montgomery Pike (page images in Germany)
• The King of Rivers: With a Chart of Our Slave and Free Soil Territory (New York: C. Wood, 1850), by Cora Montgomery, contrib. by Gerrit Smith
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Mostly Mississippi, by Harold Speakman (HTML and page images at LOC)
• The Navigator: Containing Directions for Navigating the Monongahela, Allegheny, Ohio, and Mississippi Rivers (9th edition; Pittsburgh: Cramer, Spear and Eichbaum, 1817), by Zadok Cramer (page images at Missouri)
• Four Months in a Sneak-Box: A Boat Voyage of 2600 Miles Down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, and Along the Gulf of Mexico, by Nathaniel H. Bishop
  • illustrated HTML at ibiblio.org
  • Gutenberg text
• Old Times on the Upper Mississippi: The Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot From 1854 to 1863 (Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Co., 1909), by George Byron Merrick (page images at Google; US access only)
• Life on the Mississippi (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1906), by Mark Twain (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
• Life on the Mississippi (Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883), by Mark Twain
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• The Canoe Aurora: A Cruise from the Adirondacks to the Gulf (1885), by Charles A. Neidé (illustrated HTML at thecheappages.com)
• A Journal of Travels into the Arkansas Territory, During the Year 1819; With Occasional Observations on the Manners of the Aborigines (Philadelphia: T. H. Palmer, 1821), by Thomas Nuttall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative Journal of Travels Through the Northwestern Regions of the United States (Albany: E. and E. Hosford, 1821), by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Au Mississipi: La Premiere Exploration (1673) (in French; Paris: H. Champion, 1903), by Alfred Hamy, contrib. by Jacques Marquette and Ernest Gagnon
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Discovery and Exploration of the Mississippi Valley: With the Original Narratives of Marquette, Allouez, Membré, Hennepin and Anastase Douay (Clinton Hall, NY: Redfield, 1852), by John Gilmary Shea
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• An Account of Expeditions to the Sources of the Mississippi, and Through the Western Parts of Louisiana, to the Sources of the Arkansaw, Kans, La Platte, and Pierre Jaun, Rivers (Philadelphia, 1810), by Zebulon Montgomery Pike (Javascript-dependent page images at americanjourneys.org)
• Heroes of the Middle West: The French (Boston: Ginn, 1900), by Mary Hartwell Catherwood (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Explorations of Père Marquette (c1951), by Jim Kjelgaard (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Discovery of the Great West (1870 edition), by Francis Parkman (Gutenberg text)

• Gideon's Band: A Tale of the Mississippi (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1914), by George Washington Cable, illust. by F. C. Yohn (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Last of the Flatboats: A Story of the Mississippi and its Interesting Family of Rivers (sixth edition; Boston: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Co., 1900), by George Cary Eggleston, illust. by Charlotte Harding (multiple formats at Indiana)
• Raftmates: A Story of the Great River (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1902), by Kirk Munroe (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Story of Duciehurst: A Tale of the Mississippi (New York: Macmillan, 1914), by Mary Noailles Murfree (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (New York: Hendricks House, 1954), by Herman Melville, ed. by Elizabeth Sophia Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (New York: Grove Press, 1949), by Herman Melville (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (New York: Dix, Edwards and Co., 1857), by Herman Melville
  • HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text and page images
• The Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw: or, Scenes on the Mississippi (Paris: Baudry's European Library, 1836), by Frances Milton Trollope (page images at Google)
• With Sword and Crucifix: Being an Account of the Strange Adventures of Count Louis de Sancerre, Companion of Sieur de La Salle, on the Lower Mississippi in the Year of Grace 1682 (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1900), by Edward S. Van Zile, illust. by Arthur Ignatius Keller
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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