Author: David Freese
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781938086731
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A major new book that shows why the Mississippi remains America's most important and iconic river!
Mississippi River
Author: David Freese
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781938086731
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A major new book that shows why the Mississippi remains America's most important and iconic river!
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781938086731
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A major new book that shows why the Mississippi remains America's most important and iconic river!
Headwaters of the Mississippi
Author: Willard W. Glazier
Publisher: Chicago : Rand, McNally
ISBN:
Category : Explorers
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Publisher: Chicago : Rand, McNally
ISBN:
Category : Explorers
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
A Management Plan for the Upper Mississippi River
Author: Minnesota. Mississippi Headwaters Board
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land use
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land use
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
The Missouri River and Its Utmost Source
Author: Jacob Vradenberg Brower
Publisher: St. Paul, Minn. : [Pioneer Press]
ISBN:
Category : Missouri River
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Publisher: St. Paul, Minn. : [Pioneer Press]
ISBN:
Category : Missouri River
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Headwaters of the Mississippi
Author: Willard Glazier
Publisher: University Press of the Pacific
ISBN: 9781410207623
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Glazier, president of the American Geographical Society, explored the headwaters of the Mississippi in 1881, and claims the discovery of the true source of the Mississippi lying immediately to the south of Lake Itasca, a small lake which he humbly named Lake Glazier. This was not the case, however. A fascinating account of the exploration for the source of the Mississippi, together with views, descriptive and pictorial, of the cities, towns, villages and scenery on the banks of the river, as seen during a canoe voyage of over three thousand miles from its head waters to the Gulf of Mexico. A fascinating narrative account of Glazier's journey to the part of the river deemed nearly inaccessible by explorers. Preparation, itinerary to the journey and subsequent events are all captured in this historical account. The photographic illustrations in this volume, taken on a second expedition in 1891, by Fred J. Trost, are purportedly the first such illustrations of the Mississippi headwaters.
Publisher: University Press of the Pacific
ISBN: 9781410207623
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Glazier, president of the American Geographical Society, explored the headwaters of the Mississippi in 1881, and claims the discovery of the true source of the Mississippi lying immediately to the south of Lake Itasca, a small lake which he humbly named Lake Glazier. This was not the case, however. A fascinating account of the exploration for the source of the Mississippi, together with views, descriptive and pictorial, of the cities, towns, villages and scenery on the banks of the river, as seen during a canoe voyage of over three thousand miles from its head waters to the Gulf of Mexico. A fascinating narrative account of Glazier's journey to the part of the river deemed nearly inaccessible by explorers. Preparation, itinerary to the journey and subsequent events are all captured in this historical account. The photographic illustrations in this volume, taken on a second expedition in 1891, by Fred J. Trost, are purportedly the first such illustrations of the Mississippi headwaters.
The True Source of the Mississippi
Author: Pearce Giles
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Elk Lake (Clearwater County, Minn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Elk Lake (Clearwater County, Minn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
The Edge of Itasca
Author: Ren Holland
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781891274107
Category : Becker County (Minn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The Edge of Itasca is the benchmark for the history and life around the headwaters of the Mississippi River. It includes history prior to 1940, life in the Itasca Park communities in the 1940s, and a special section on rural schools.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781891274107
Category : Becker County (Minn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The Edge of Itasca is the benchmark for the history and life around the headwaters of the Mississippi River. It includes history prior to 1940, life in the Itasca Park communities in the 1940s, and a special section on rural schools.
Headwaters of the Mississippi Comprising Biographial Sketches of Early and Recent Explorers of the Great River, and a Full Account of the Discovery and Location of Its True Source in a Lake Beyond Itasca
Author: Willard W. Glazier
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Minnesota
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Minnesota
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Lansing to LeClaire Travel Guide
Author: Dean Klinkenberg
Publisher: Dean Klinkenberg
ISBN: 9780971690448
Category : Mississippi River
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Publisher: Dean Klinkenberg
ISBN: 9780971690448
Category : Mississippi River
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The Mississippi River and Its Source
Author: Jacob Vradenberg Brower
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
This volume of the Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society is devoted to a historical discussion by Jacob Vredenberg Brower (1844-1905) about the source and headwaters of the Mississippi River, combined with his extensive hydrographic and topographic surveys. Brower summarizes the major European and white American exploratory trips to the area. Based on a scientific survey of the Itasca Basin that he made under the authority of the Minnesota Historical Society, Brower concludes that the true source of the Mississippi is neither Itasca Lake nor Elk Lake, nor even the stream discovered by Jean N. Nicolet (1836) called "Nicolet's Infant Mississippi River," but the "Greater Ultimate Reservoir" which receives its water supply from aerial precipitation and stores it in various component lakes and springs. Some of these lakes include Hernando de Soto, the Triplets, Whipple, Morrison, and Floating Moss; the streams that proceed from them include the beginnings of the Nicolet as well as the Mississippi. From Nicolet's middle lake the main river proceeds "in an unbroken channel" to the Gulf. After lobbying successfully to have this headwater region preserved as Itasca State Park (1891), Brower served as its first commissioner. The appendix includes an historical account of how the Mississippi and the Lake of the Woods came to form part of the northwestern boundary of the United States. Its author was Albert James Hill (1823-1895), who was also instrumental in the creation of Brower's report.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
This volume of the Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society is devoted to a historical discussion by Jacob Vredenberg Brower (1844-1905) about the source and headwaters of the Mississippi River, combined with his extensive hydrographic and topographic surveys. Brower summarizes the major European and white American exploratory trips to the area. Based on a scientific survey of the Itasca Basin that he made under the authority of the Minnesota Historical Society, Brower concludes that the true source of the Mississippi is neither Itasca Lake nor Elk Lake, nor even the stream discovered by Jean N. Nicolet (1836) called "Nicolet's Infant Mississippi River," but the "Greater Ultimate Reservoir" which receives its water supply from aerial precipitation and stores it in various component lakes and springs. Some of these lakes include Hernando de Soto, the Triplets, Whipple, Morrison, and Floating Moss; the streams that proceed from them include the beginnings of the Nicolet as well as the Mississippi. From Nicolet's middle lake the main river proceeds "in an unbroken channel" to the Gulf. After lobbying successfully to have this headwater region preserved as Itasca State Park (1891), Brower served as its first commissioner. The appendix includes an historical account of how the Mississippi and the Lake of the Woods came to form part of the northwestern boundary of the United States. Its author was Albert James Hill (1823-1895), who was also instrumental in the creation of Brower's report.