Immortal river : the upper Mississippi in ancient and modern times /
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| Author / Creator: | Fremling, Calvin R., 1929- |
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| Imprint: | Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c2005. |
| Description: | xii, 429 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5577497 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Prologue
- 2. Introducing Old Man River
- 3. Majestic river bluffs and beautiful valleys
- 4. Glaciers : sculptors of the upper Mississippi River Basin
- 5. The upper Mississippi River : child of the Pleistocene
- 6. The land missed by the glaciers
- 7. After the glaciers
- 8. The Mississippi's prehistoric Native Americans : hunters, gatherers, farmers, and city planners
- 9. The quest for furs and a northwest passage : changing ownership of the Mississippi River Basin, 1673-1803
- 10. Prairie, Savanna, and the big woods : the riverine landscape at the time of exploration and settlement by Americans and Europeans
- 11. Early exploitation of natural resources
- 12. Steamboats 'round the bend
- 13. "Improving" the river, 1878-1930
- 14. Mission impossible : the nine-foot channel project
- 15. The glory years
- 16. Diesel-driven towboats and steel barges : a rebirth of commercial river transportation
- 17. The corps giveth, the corps taketh away : long-term impacts of the nine-foot channel and related projects
- 18. Vital strands in the river's web of life
- 19. "Mayflies! : what the hell good are they?"
- 20. Flooding : "the river is a strong brown god - sullen, untamed and intractable"
- 21. Pollution : has a defiled river been reborn?
- 22. Who's in charge?
- 23. Can this be the same river? : St. Louis to the mouth of the Ohio and beyond
- 24. Epilogue : the river yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
