Mighty Mississippi
Subtitle: biography of a river
By: Marquis W. Childs ; foreword by Geoffrey C. Ward.
Publisher: Ticknor & Fields
Published: 1982
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
Subjects: Childs, Marquis William, 1903-; Mississippi River -- History.; Mississippi River -- Description and travel.; Mississippi River Valley -- History.; Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel.
Description: "Mighty Mississippi is a stirring account of the conflict over the great river at the heart of the nation, a conflict between water and rail, full of the violence of an earlier America. The author gives us, out of his own background on the Mississippi, something of the magic and mystery of Mark Twain and an era long gone. It is a saga of America, and the reader who begins it will find it impossible to put it down." -- Senator Charles Percy, Illinois. -- Book jacket.