mississippi river

The escapades of Tom Sawyer and his friends in a small, nineteenth-century town on the Mississippi River.

An account of life on the Mississippi in the old steamboat days and Twain's experiences as a pilot.

The adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the early nineteenth century.

Recounts the adventures of a young boy and an escaped slave as they travel down the Mississippi River on a raft.

A color-illustrated biography of seventeenth-century French explorer Ren?-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle, who became the first European to travel the entire Mississippi River, and whose expeditions led to France's creation of the Louisiana colony.

A brief biography of the seventeenth-century French explorers who were the first Europeans to locate and chart the Mississippi River.

Examines the lives and discoveries of Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet, seventeenth-century French explorers who were assigned to follow the course of the Mississippi River from the Great Lakes to see whether it led to the Pacific Ocean.

In 1857, twelve-year-old Libby joins her father aboard the Christina and proves that she can be trusted to assist in the escape of fugitive slaves.

Photographs and text describe the origins of sternwheel paddle boats and how they aided in the settling of the interior of the United States. Also included is a look at today's sternwheelers.