River fever
Subtitle: adventures on the Mississippi, 1969-1972 : a memoir
By: Will Bagley
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Signature Books
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Salt Lake City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9781560852780
Subjects: Description and travel; Rafting (Sports); Travel
Description: "Beginning in the spring of 1969, Huckleberry Finn inspired a question: Could you build a raft, float down the Mississippi River to New Orleans, and on the way learn something about America and its peoples? Will Bagley, a vagrant longhair and future prize-winning western historian, and his friends could, and did. Now, a half century after the adventure, Bagley tells his story."--Provided by the publisher.
Table of contents: title: The fisherman; title: The rivers of America; title: Revolution in the air; title: Black Hawk, John Adams, and the Sunset Marina; title: Big river; title: Free and easy and comfortable; title: New Orleans or bust; title: Old devil river; title: When you learn to ramble, you learn to lose; title: Lone Star Peak; title: The strange mysteriousness; title: Tornadoes; title: Papoose; title: Southbound; title: Montezuma Bend; title: All the rivers run into the sea.