Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Book Cover
book
BookBook
Author Ambrose, Stephen E.

Title The Mississippi and the making of a nation : from the Louisiana purchase to today / Stephen E. Ambrose, Douglas G. Brinkley ; photography by Sam Abell.

Publication Info. Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, [2002]
©2002

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  977 AMBROSE    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  976.2 AMB    Storage
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  917.7 AM16    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  977 AMBROSE    Check Shelf
 East Windsor, Library Association of Warehouse Point - Adult Department  977 AMB    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  977 BRI    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  977 AM18    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  977 AMB    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction  977 AMBROSE    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  977 AM1M    Check Shelf
Description 273 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm
Note "An official publication of the Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial"-- Jacket.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-268) and index.
Contents Introduction -- ch. 1. Head of passes -- ch. 2. New Orleans -- Portfolio : The delta -- ch. 3. River road plantations -- ch. 4. Natchez -- Portfolio : The Old South -- ch. 5. The delta : from Vicksburg on -- ch. 6. Memphis -- Portfolio : The river in flood -- ch. 7. The great confluence -- ch. 8. St. Louis -- Portfolio : The Delta Queen -- ch. 9. Mark Twain country -- ch. 10. The quad cities and Dubuque -- Portfolio : The headwaters -- ch. 11. Minnesota -- Bibliography/index -- Acknowledgments/credits.
Subject Frontier and pioneer life -- United States.
Mississippi River -- History.
Mississippi River Valley -- History.
West (U.S.) -- History.
United States -- Territorial expansion.
Mississippi River -- Pictorial works.
Mississippi River Valley -- Pictorial works.
Added Author Brinkley, Douglas.
Abell, Sam.
ISBN 0792269136: $40.00
-->
Add a Review