Mississippi River Valley -- History
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Broader terms:Narrower terms:- Mississippi River Valley -- History -- 1803-1865
- Mississippi River Valley -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
- Mississippi River Valley -- History -- To 1803
- Middle West -- History
- Mississippi River Valley -- History, Local
- Brigands and robbers -- Mississippi River Valley -- History
- Flood control -- Mississippi River Valley -- History
- Floodplain management -- Mississippi River Valley -- History
- Indians of North America -- Mississippi River Valley -- History
- Social settlements -- Mississippi River Valley -- History
- Social stratification -- Mississippi River Valley -- History
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The Winning of the West (presidential edition, 4 volumes), by Theodore Roosevelt- The Winning of the West (4 volumes; New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, c1889-1898), by Theodore Roosevelt
- The Way to the West, and the Lives of Three Early Americans: Boone; Crockett; Carson (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1903), by Emerson Hough, illust. by Frederic Remington (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The French in the Heart of America, by John H. Finley (Gutenberg text)
- History of the American Frontier, 1763-1893 (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1924), by Frederic L. Paxson (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Outlaws of Cave-in-Rock: Historical Accounts of the Famous Highwaymen and River Pirates Who Operated in Pioneer Days Upon the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers and Over the Old Natchez Trace (Cleveland: A. H. Clark Co., 1924), by Otto A. Rothert (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Rise of the New West, by Frederick Jackson Turner (Gutenberg text)
- Kansas in the Sixties (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1911), by S. J. Crawford
- Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field: Southern Adventure in Time of War, by Thomas Wallace Knox (page images at MOA)
- 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)
- Heroes of the Middle West: The French (Boston: Ginn, 1900), by Mary Hartwell Catherwood (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The United States and Spain in 1790: An Episode in Diplomacy Described from Hitherto Unpublished Sources (Winnowings in American History Diplomatic Series #1; Brooklyn: Historical Printing Club, 1890), ed. by Worthington Chauncey Ford
- Pinckney's Treaty: A Study of America's Advantage From Europe's Distress, 1783-1800 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1926), by Samuel Flagg Bemis (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Little More Freedom: African Americans Enter the Urban Midwest, 1860-1930 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Jack S. Blocker (PDF at Ohio State)
- No Place to Call Home: The 1807-1857 Life Writings of Caroline Barnes Crosby, Chronicler of Outlying Mormon Communities (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2005), by Caroline Barnes Crosby, ed. by Edward Leo Lyman, Susan Ward Payne, and S. George Ellsworth (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- A Little More Freedom: African Americans Enter the Urban Midwest, 1860-1930 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Jack S. Blocker (PDF at Ohio State)
- A Little More Freedom: African Americans Enter the Urban Midwest, 1860-1930 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Jack S. Blocker (PDF at Ohio State)
- A Little More Freedom: African Americans Enter the Urban Midwest, 1860-1930 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Jack S. Blocker (PDF at Ohio State)
- Mostly Mississippi, by Harold Speakman (HTML and page images at LOC)
- The Outlaws of Cave-in-Rock: Historical Accounts of the Famous Highwaymen and River Pirates Who Operated in Pioneer Days Upon the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers and Over the Old Natchez Trace (Cleveland: A. H. Clark Co., 1924), by Otto A. Rothert (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- 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)
- Upper Mississippi: or, Historical Sketches of the Moundbuilders, the Indian Tribes, and the Progress of Civilization in the North-West, From A. D. 1600 to the Present Time (Chicago: Clarke and Co.; New York: Oakley and Mason, 1867), by George Gale
- From Cahokia to Larson to Moundville: Death, World Renewal, and the Sacred in the Mississippian Social World of the Late Prehistoric Eastern Woodlands (Knoxville: Newfound Press, c2013), by A. Martin Byers (PDF at Tennessee)
- From Cahokia to Larson to Moundville: Death, World Renewal, and the Sacred in the Mississippian Social World of the Late Prehistoric Eastern Woodlands (Knoxville: Newfound Press, c2013), by A. Martin Byers (PDF at Tennessee)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Mississippi River Valley- The Mississippi Valley, by J. W. Foster (page images at MOA)
- The States and Territories of the Great West (New York and Auburn: Miller, Orton, and Mulligan; Buffalo: E. F. Beadle, 1856), by Jacob Ferris
- Western Portraiture, and Emigrants' Guide, by Daniel S. Curtiss (page images at MOA)
- Prairie and Rocky Mountain Adventures, or, Life in the West, by John C. Van Tramp (page images at MOA)
- The Different West, As Seen by a Transplanted Easterner (Chiago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1913), by Arthur E. Bostwick
- 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
- The Ohio and Mississippi Pilot: Consisting of a Set of Charts of Those Rivers, Representing Their Channels, Islands, Ripples, Rapids, Shoals, Bars, Rocks, &c. Accompanied With Directions for the Use of Navigators; To Which is Added, A Geography of the States and Territories, West and South of the Allegheny Mountains (Pittsburgh: R. Patterson and Lambdin, 1820), by J. C. Gilleland
- 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)
- A Topographical Description of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and North Carolina (Boston: J. Norman, 1787), by Thomas Hutchins
- 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 (second edition; London: Sherwood, Neely and Jones, 1819), by John Bradbury, contrib. by Ramsay Crooks
- Early Western Travels, 1748-1846 (32 volumes; Cleveland: A. H. Clark Co., 1904-1907), ed. by Reuben Gold Thwaites (page images at HathiTrust)
- Mostly Mississippi, by Harold Speakman (HTML and page images at LOC)
- 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)
- A Summer in the Wilderness, Embracing a Canoe Voyage Up the Mississippi and Around Lake Superior, by Charles Lanman (multiple formats at loc.gov)
- The History of Louisiana, or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing a Description of the Countries That Lie on Both Sides of the River mississippi, With an Account of the Settlements, Inhabitants, Soil, Climate and Products (reprint based on the 1774 edition, with added introduction, captions, and index; New Orleans: Pelican Press, ca. 1947), by Le Page du Pratz, contrib. by Stanley Clisby Arthur (page images at HathiTrust)
- Grand Excursion to New Orleans, Reed Commandery, No. 6, Knights Templar, Stationed at Dayton, Ohio, on Board the Steamer Thomas Sherlock (Dayton, OH: Journal Steam Job Printing Establishment, 1875), by Knights Templar Reed Commandery No. 6 (page images at HathiTrust)
- The History of Louisiana, or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina, by Le Page du Pratz, contrib. by Stanley Clisby Arthur (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The History of Louisiana, or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing a Description of the Countries That Lye on Both Sides of the River Mississippi, With an Account of the Settlements, Inhabitants, Soil, Climate and Products (2 volumes; London: Printed for T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, 1763), by Le Page du Pratz
- The History of Louisiana, or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing a Description of the Countries That Lie on Both Sides of the River mississippi, With an Account of the Settlements, Inhabitants, Soil, Climate and Products (new edition; London: Printed for T. Becket, 1774), by Le Page du Pratz (page images at HathiTrust)
- 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)
- Sailing on the Great Lakes and Rivers of America, by John Disturnell (page images at MOA)
- 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, by Mark Twain (multiple editions)
- Main-Travelled Roads, by Hamlin Garland (Gutenberg text)
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