Title: Down the Mississippi
First published: 1954
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.
Subjects: Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Mississippi river, fiction, Boats and boating, fiction
Places: Mississippi River
LC classification: PZ7.B912 Dp