| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
268 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Note |
Reprint. Originally published: Charlotte, N.C. : East Woods Press, c1984. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 260-268. |
| Contents |
The pioneers : before the twentieth century. The lonely land / Sigurd F. Olson -- Astoria / Washington Irving -- Narrative of a journey / John Kirk Townsend -- Journal of a trapper / Osborne Russell -- Diary of Mrs. Amelia Stewart Knight / Amelia Stewart Knight -- Snake River of Hell's Canyon / Carrey, Conley, Barton -- The big sky / A.B. Guthrie, Jr. -- The lost journal of John Colton Sumner / John Colton Sumner -- Snake River Exploration of 1876-1877 / Lt. G.C. Doane -- Along Alaska's great river / Frederick Schwatka -- Collection of river songs / Mason Williams. |
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The adventurers, the seekers, the observers. Life on the Mississippi / Mark Twain -- Exploring the Yukon River / Archie Satterfield -- Journeys to the far north / Olaus Murie -- Two in the far north / Margaret E. Murie -- Dangerous river / Raymond M. Patterson -- The wild palms / William Faulkner -- The pearl / John Steinbeck -- Notes from the century before / Edward Hoagland -- Home country / Ernie Pyle -- Love affair with a river / John W. Malo -- A river never sleeps / Roderick Haig-Brown -- River world / Virginia Eifert -- The sound of mountain waters / Wallace Stegner -- Goodbye to a river / John Graves -- Cataract Canyon's rockbound riddle / Bill Belknap -- Snake River of Hells Canyon / Cort Conley. |
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Modern times : the past fifteen years. Must this be lost to the sight of man? / Michael Frome -- That river swallows people / Tom Brokaw -- The St. Croix / Roger Drayna -- The survival of the bark canoe / John McPhee -- The river / Joel Vance -- Rivers of the Rockies / Boyd Norton -- A river runs through it / Norman Maclean -- Exploring a desert legend / David Sumner -- Alive but not well / Verne Huser -- The big drops / Nash Collins -- Run, river, run / Ann Zwinger -- Paddy / R.D. Lawrence -- Down the river / Edward Abbey -- Stanislaus, the struggle to save a river / Tim Palmer -- Kayak adventuring in a desert gorge / J. Calvin Giddings -- Eighty-five strokes per minute / Eric Evans. |
| Subject |
Rivers -- United States.
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United States -- Description and travel.
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Rivers -- United States -- Literary collections.
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American prose literature.
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| Added Author |
Huser, Verne, 1931-
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| ISBN |
0871066734 |
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9780871066732 |
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