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The role of the flatboat in our country's evolution is far more significant than most Americans realize. Buck chronicles his adventure building a wooden flatboat from the bygone era of the early 1800s and journeying down the Mississippi River to New Orleans. He cast off down the river on the flatboat Patience accompanied by an eccentric crew of daring shipmates. Over the course of his voyage, steering a fragile wooden craft through narrow channels...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 24
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1090L
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English
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"Life on the Mississippi is a powerful narrative concerning the past, present, and future of the Mississippi River, including its towns, peoples, and ways of life. Before addressing the river and his personal relationship to it, Twain provides a brief history of the Mississippi River. He comments in the first few chapters on the river's historic standing as a wonder that surpasses many rivers around the world. Twain also provides a history of explorers...
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[2005]
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English
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Presents an overview of the historical events surrounding a series of earthquakes that shook the landscape of the central Mississippi Valley, from December, 1811 to April, 1812, explaining how it uncovered a murdered slave, destroyed towns, and affected the War of 1812.
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The Mississippi. The Missouri. The Ohio. America's great rivers are the very lifeblood of our country. We need them for nourishing crops, for cheap bulk transportation, for hydroelectric power, for fresh drinking water. Rivers are also part of our mythology, our collective soul; they are Mark Twain, Led Zeppelin, and the Delta Blues. But as infrastructure across the nation fails and climate change pushes rivers and seas to new heights, we've arrived...
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2015.
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English
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"This is the story of an ordinary bloke who along with a friend decided that they would tackle the 4th longest river in the world - The Mighty Mississippi. Travelling unsupported for the entire journey join them as they endure the loneliness and crushing boredom of the 'green hell' of the upper reaches, through the lock systems and hydro electric power plant dams, avoiding the huge barges and, in the lower reaches, ocean going ships. Stay with them...
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"With emancipation, a long battle for equal citizenship began. Bringing together the histories of religion, race, and the South, Elizabeth L. Jemison shows how southerners, black and white, drew on biblical narratives as the basis for very different political imaginaries during and after Reconstruction. Focusing on everyday Protestants in the Mississippi River Valley, Jemison scours their biblical thinking and religious attitudes toward race. She...
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