Title: Mississippi River dreams
First published: 2004
Description: This is the story of an Irish Catholic family and the hardships and difficulties growing up in the 1850s along the Mississippi River.  This was a time when the railroad was part of the dream to "go West young man."  It was also the time of an Underground railroad and the slavery debates.
Subjects: Fiction, Railroad bridges, Mississippi River
Places: Mississippi River Valley, Quad Cities (Ill. and Iowa)
LC classification: PS3603.O868 M57 2004