Down the Mississippi
By: illustrated by Peter Burchard.
Contributors: Burchard, Peter, illus.
Publisher: Crowell
Published: 1954
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 113
Subjects: Mississippi River -- Fiction
Description: A Minnesota farm boy gets a much desired opportunity to go down the Mississippi on a raft as the cook's helper. Instead of curing him of his wish to work on the river, as his parents had hoped, it only strengthens his hope to become a riverman.