Mississippi River Valley

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• Flood control -- Mississippi River Valley
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• Frontier and pioneer life -- Mississippi River Valley
• Indians of North America -- Mississippi River Valley
• Physical geography -- Mississippi River Valley
• Speakman, Harold, 1888-1928 -- Travel -- Mississippi River Valley

• Mississippi Valley

• The Mississippi Valley, by J. W. Foster (page images at MOA)
• Prairie and Rocky Mountain Adventures, or, Life in the West, by John C. Van Tramp (page images at MOA)
• Western Portraiture, and Emigrants' Guide, by Daniel S. Curtiss (page images at MOA)

• Proceedings of the Congressional Convention, Held in the City of St. Louis, on 13th, 14th and 15th days of May, 1873 (page images at MOA)

• Journey in North America, Containing a Survey of the Countries Watered by the Mississippi, Ohio, Missouri, and Other Affluing Rivers (Paris: Printed for Arthus Bertrand, 1826), by Georges-Henri-Victor Collot
  • Volume 1: Javascript-dependent page images at americanjourneys.org
  • Volume 2: Javascript-dependent page images at americanjourneys.org
• Mostly Mississippi, by Harold Speakman (HTML and page images at LOC)
• 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)
• Recollections of the Last Ten Years, Passed in Occasional Residences and Journeyings in the Valley of the Mississippi (Boston: Cummings, Hilliard and Company, 1826), by Timothy Flint (page images in Germany)
• Remarks Made on a Tour to Prairie du Chien, Thence to Washington City, in 1829 (Columbus, OH: Isaac N. Whiting, 1831), by Caleb Atwater (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Sailing on the Great Lakes and Rivers of America, by John Disturnell (page images at MOA)
• A Summer in the Wilderness, Embracing a Canoe Voyage Up the Mississippi and Around Lake Superior, by Charles Lanman (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Tourist's Guide to the Upper Mississippi River, by John Disturnell (page images at MOA)
• Travels in the Interior of America, in the Years 1809, 1810, and 1811, by John Bradbury
  • HTML at xmission.com
  • page images in Germany

• A Collection of Voyages and Travels, in Three Parts (London: O. Payne, 1741), by Thomas James, Jean-Bernard-Louis Desjean Pointis, and Daniel Coxe (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Description of the English Province of Carolana, by the Spaniards Call'd Florida, and by the French La Louisiane; as Also of the Great and Famous River Meschacebe or Missisipi, The Five Vast Navigable Lakes of Fresh Water, and the Parts Adjacent (London: Printed for B. Cowse, 1722), by Daniel Coxe (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Letters to the Dutchess of Lesdiguieres Giving an Account of a Voyage to Canada, and Travels Through That Vast Country, and Louisiana, to the Gulf of Mexico (1763), by Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Adventures of the Chevalier de La Salle and His Companions (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1875), by John S. C. Abbott (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)

• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (from the Author's National Edition; New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1903), by Mark Twain (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Hartford et al.: American Pub. Co., 1884), by Mark Twain (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Main-Travelled Roads, by Hamlin Garland (Gutenberg text)

• The Bent Twig, by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (Gutenberg text)
• Kingsblood Royal (1947), by Sinclair Lewis (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• The Lion of Farside, by John Dalmas (HTML at Baen Ebooks)
• Miss Lulu Bett (novel), by Zona Gale (Gutenberg text)
• Poor White, by Sherwood Anderson (Gutenberg text)

• The Janitor (c2007), by Adam Decker (HTML and audio with commentary at adamdecker.com)

• Mary Louise and the Liberty Girls (written under "Edith Van Dyne" pseudonym; Chicago: Reilly and Lee, c1918), by L. Frank Baum, illust. by Alice Carsey (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Western Tourist and Emigrant's Guide through the States of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, and Wisconsin, and the Territories of Minnesota, Missouri, and Nebraska (1855), by J. H. Colton (page images at MOA)

• The Western Tourist and Emigrant's Guide through the States of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, and Wisconsin, and the Territories of Minnesota, Missouri, and Nebraska (1855), by J. H. Colton (page images at MOA)

• The French in the Heart of America, by John H. Finley (Gutenberg text)
• The Loyal West in the Times of the Rebellion: Also, Before and Since, by John Warner Barber (page images at MOA)

• Rise of the New West, by Frederick Jackson Turner (Gutenberg text)

• Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field: Southern Adventure in Time of War, by Thomas Wallace Knox (page images at MOA)
• The Loyal West in the Times of the Rebellion: Also, Before and Since, by John Warner Barber (page images at MOA)

• Heroes of the Middle West: The French (Boston: Ginn, 1900), by Mary Hartwell Catherwood (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Some Considerations on the Consequences of the French Settling Colonies on the Mississippi, With Respect to the Trade and Safety of the English Plantations in America and the West-Indies (London: Printed for J. Roberts, 1720), by James Smith (multiple formats at archive.org)

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

• The Nation's Response to Flood Disasters: A Historical Account (Madison: Association of State Floodplain Managers, 2000), by James M. Wright, ed. by Wendy L. Hessler (PDF at floods.org)

• The Nation's Response to Flood Disasters: A Historical Account (Madison: Association of State Floodplain Managers, 2000), by James M. Wright, ed. by Wendy L. Hessler (PDF at floods.org)

• Journey in North America, Containing a Survey of the Countries Watered by the Mississippi, Ohio, Missouri, and Other Affluing Rivers (Paris: Printed for Arthus Bertrand, 1826), by Georges-Henri-Victor Collot
  • Volume 1: Javascript-dependent page images at americanjourneys.org
  • Volume 2: Javascript-dependent page images at americanjourneys.org

• 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
• 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)

• Miss Lulu Bett (stage play, two endings; New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1921), by Zona Gale (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Cornhuskers, by Carl Sandburg
  • HTML at Bartleby
  • HTML and TEI at Michigan
• Mid-American Chants (New York and London: J. Lane, 1918), by Sherwood Anderson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• To Nebraska in 1857: A Diary of E. F. Beadle, by Erastus Flavel Beadle, contrib. by David L. Bristow (HTML at davidbristow.com)

• Travels in the Interior of America, in the Years 1809, 1810, and 1811, by John Bradbury
  • HTML at xmission.com
  • page images in Germany

• 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)

• The Mississippi Valley, by J. W. Foster (page images at MOA)

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

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