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Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Travel -- Mississippi River

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• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Travel
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• 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

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• Traveling in Mark Twain (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987), by Richard Bridgman (HTML at UC Press)
• Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World (Hartford: The American Pub. Co., 1898), by Mark Twain
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust

• 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

• Historic Names and Places on the Lower Mississippi River (Vicksburg, MS: Mississippi River Commission, 1977), by Marion Bragg (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Dramatic Unity of "Huckleberry Finn" (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1976), by George C. Carrington
  • PDF at Ohio State
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press

• Down the River: or, Buck Bradford and His Tyrants (Boston: Lee and Shepard, c1896), by Oliver Optic (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The Free Rangers, by Joseph A. Altsheler (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Outdoor Chums on a Houseboat: or, The Rivals of the Mississippi (New York: Goldsmith Pub. Co., c1913), by Quincy Allen (Gutenberg text)
• The Rover Boys in Southern Waters: or, The Deserted Steam Yacht (New York: Chatterton-Peck Co., c1907), by Edward Stratemeyer (Gutenberg text)
• The Rover Boys in Southern Waters: or, The Deserted Steam Yacht (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1907), by Edward Stratemeyer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Rover Boys on the Plains: or, The Mystery of Red Rock Ranch (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1906), by Edward Stratemeyer (Gutenberg text)

• 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)

• Narrative of an Expedition Through the Upper Mississippi to Itasca Lake, the Actual Source of This River, by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (page images at loc.gov)
• Itasca State Park: An Illustrated History (v11 of Minnesota Historical Collections; 1904), by J. V. Brower (page images at Google; US access only)

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

• The Great Mississippi Flood of 1874, by Louis Alfred Wiltz (page images at MOA)
• 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)

• Investigation of the Performance of the New Orleans Flood Protection Systems in Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005 (final report; 2 volumes, with appendices; 2006), by Independent Levee Investigation Team, contrib. by Raymond Bolton Seed
  • PDF files at Berkeley
  • PDF files with commentary at usgs.gov

• Historic Names and Places on the Lower Mississippi River (Vicksburg, MS: Mississippi River Commission, 1977), by Marion Bragg (page images at HathiTrust)

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