Immortal River The Upper Mississippi in Ancient and Modern Times

Name: Immortal River The Upper Mississippi in Ancient and Modern Times
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ISBN: 9780299202941

ISBN-10: 0299202941

ISBN-13: 9780299202941

Edition: 2005

Authors: Calvin R. Fremling

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nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;This engaging and well-illustrated primer to the Upper Mississippi River presents the basic natural and human history of this magnificent waterway. Immortal River is written for the educated lay-person who would like to know more about the river's history and the forces that shape as well as threaten it today. It melds complex information from the fields of geology, ecology, geography, anthropology, and history into a readable, chronological story that spans some 500 million years of the earth's history. nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;Like the Mississippi itself, Immortal River often leaves the main channel to explore the river's backwaters, floodplain, and drainage basin. The…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 1/3/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 472
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.518
Language: English




Prologue



Introducing Old Man River



Majestic river bluffs and beautiful valleys



Glaciers : sculptors of the upper Mississippi River Basin



The upper Mississippi River : child of the Pleistocene



The land missed by the glaciers



After the glaciers



The Mississippi's prehistoric Native Americans : hunters, gatherers, farmers, and city planners



The quest for furs and a northwest passage : changing ownership of the Mississippi River Basin, 1673-1803



Prairie, Savanna, and the big woods : the riverine landscape at the time of exploration and settlement by Americans and Europeans



Early exploitation of natural resources



Steamboats 'round the bend



"Improving" the river, 1878-1930



Mission impossible : the nine-foot channel project



The glory years



Diesel-driven towboats and steel barges : a rebirth of commercial river transportation



The corps giveth, the corps taketh away : long-term impacts of the nine-foot channel and related projects



Vital strands in the river's web of life



"Mayflies! : what the hell good are they?"



Flooding : "the river is a strong brown god - sullen, untamed and intractable"



Pollution : has a defiled river been reborn?



Who's in charge?



Can this be the same river? : St. Louis to the mouth of the Ohio and beyond



Epilogue : the river yesterday, today, and tomorrow