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- catalog abstract ""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.".
- catalog contributor b1180115.
- catalog coverage "Mississippi River Description and travel.".
- catalog coverage "Mississippi River History.".
- catalog coverage "Mississippi River Valley Description and travel.".
- catalog coverage "Mississippi River Valley History.".
- catalog created "1982.".
- catalog date "1982".
- catalog date "1982.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1982.".
- catalog 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.".
- catalog description "Wilderness -- The invasion -- In the year of the comet -- The great highway -- Boom -- Mark Twain's Mississippi -- Rivlary of the railroads -- The bridge -- The South despairs -- Jay Gould as river man -- City against city -- To the North -- River town -- The lost river -- Down Government River -- The reckoning -- The money game.".
- catalog extent "xii, 204 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Mighty Mississippi.".
- catalog identifier "089919088X :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Mighty Mississippi.".
- catalog issued "1982".
- catalog issued "1982.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New Haven : Ticknor & Fields,".
- catalog relation "Mighty Mississippi.".
- catalog spatial "Mississippi River Description and travel.".
- catalog spatial "Mississippi River History.".
- catalog spatial "Mississippi River Valley Description and travel.".
- catalog spatial "Mississippi River Valley History.".
- catalog subject "Childs, Marquis W. (Marquis William), 1903-1990.".
- catalog subject "F351 .C47 1982".
- catalog tableOfContents "Wilderness -- The invasion -- In the year of the comet -- The great highway -- Boom -- Mark Twain's Mississippi -- Rivlary of the railroads -- The bridge -- The South despairs -- Jay Gould as river man -- City against city -- To the North -- River town -- The lost river -- Down Government River -- The reckoning -- The money game.".
- catalog title "Mighty Mississippi : biography of a river / Marquis W. Childs ; foreword by Geoffrey C. Ward.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".