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• Mississippi River Valley -- History

• 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)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Winning of the West (presidential edition, 4 volumes), by Theodore Roosevelt
  • Volume One: From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776
  • Volume Two: From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783
  • Volume Three: The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths, 1784-1790
  • Volume Four: Louisiana and the Northwest, 1791-1807
• The Winning of the West (4 volumes; New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, c1889-1898), by Theodore Roosevelt
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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• The United States and Spain in 1790: An Episode in Diplomacy Described from Hitherto Unpublished Sources (Winnowings in American History Diplomatic Series #1; Brooklyn: Historical Printing Club, 1890), ed.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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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)

• Spain in the Mississippi Valley, 1765-1794 (published in 3 parts as volumes 2-4 of the Annual Report of the American Historical Association for 1945), ed. by Lawrence Kinnaird
  • Part I (The Revolutionary Period, 1765-1781): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Part II (Post War Decade, 1782-1791): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Part III (Problems of Frontier Defense, 1792-1794): 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)

• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• 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)