Swift rivers
By: Cornelia Meigs.
Series: The Newbery honor roll
Publisher: Walker
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
Subjects: Logging -- Fiction.; Frontier and pioneer life -- Fiction.; Mississippi River -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: After being turned out by his mean-spirited uncle, Chris Dahlberg decides to harvest some of the timber on his grandfather's land in Minnesota and float the giant logs down the Mississippi River to market in St. Louis.