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Immortal River: The Upper Mississippi in Ancient and Modern Times Book

Immortal River: The Upper Mississippi in Ancient and Modern Times
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Immortal River: The Upper Mississippi in Ancient and Modern Times, 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 rive, Immortal River: The Upper Mississippi in Ancient and Modern Times
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  • Immortal River: The Upper Mississippi in Ancient and Modern Times
  • Written by author Calvin R. Fremling
  • Published by University of Wisconsin Press, 2005/01/01
  • 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 rive
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1 Prologue 3
2 Introducing Old Man River 11
3 Majestic river bluffs and beautiful valleys 27
4 Glaciers : sculptors of the upper Mississippi River Basin 40
5 The upper Mississippi River : child of the Pleistocene 51
6 The land missed by the glaciers 71
7 After the glaciers 97
8 The Mississippi's prehistoric Native Americans : hunters, gatherers, farmers, and city planners 101
9 The quest for furs and a northwest passage : changing ownership of the Mississippi River Basin, 1673-1803 115
10 Prairie, Savanna, and the big woods : the riverine landscape at the time of exploration and settlement by Americans and Europeans 127
11 Early exploitation of natural resources 140
12 Steamboats 'round the bend 163
13 "Improving" the river, 1878-1930 199
14 Mission impossible : the nine-foot channel project 215
15 The glory years 230
16 Diesel-driven towboats and steel barges : a rebirth of commercial river transportation 236
17 The corps giveth, the corps taketh away : long-term impacts of the nine-foot channel and related projects 247
18 Vital strands in the river's web of life 255
19 "Mayflies! : what the hell good are they?" 288
20 Flooding : "the river is a strong brown god - sullen, untamed and intractable" 301
21 Pollution : has a defiled river been reborn? 317
22 Who's in charge? 335
23 Can this be the same river? : St. Louis to the mouth of the Ohio and beyond 362
24 Epilogue : the river yesterday, today, and tomorrow 368


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