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Working the Mississippi
Bonnie Stepenoff
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Description for Working the Mississippi
Hardback. Examines nineteenth and twentieth century life along the Mississippi from St. Louis to Memphis showing how workers changed the river and were in turn changed by it. Each chapter focuses on representative personnel: captains and pilots, gamblers and musicians, cooks and craftsmen from Mark Twain to Louis Armstrong." Num Pages: 208 pages, 24 illustrations, notes. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.
The Mississippi River occupies a sacred place in American culture and mythology. Often called The Father of Rivers, it winds through American life in equal measure as a symbol and as a topographic feature. To the people who know it best, the river is life and a livelihood. River boatmen working the wide Mississippi are never far from land. Even in the dark, they can smell plants and animals and hear people on the banks and wharves.
Bonnie Stepenoff takes readers on a cruise through history, showing how workers from St. Louis to Memphis changed the river ... Read more
The Mississippi River occupies a sacred place in American culture and mythology. Often called The Father of Rivers, it winds through American life in equal measure as a symbol and as a topographic feature. To the people who know it best, the river is life and a livelihood. River boatmen working the wide Mississippi are never far from land. Even in the dark, they can smell plants and animals and hear people on the banks and wharves.
Bonnie Stepenoff takes readers on a cruise through history, showing how workers from St. Louis to Memphis changed the river ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Missouri Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Missouri, United States
ISBN
9780826220530
SKU
V9780826220530
Shipping Time
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Ref
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About Bonnie Stepenoff
Bonnie Stepenoff lives on the banks of the Mississippi River in Cape Giradeau, Missouri. In 2012, for her extensive writing and preservation efforts, she was awarded the Rozier Award for Lifetime Achievement by the Missouri Alliance for Historic Preservation (Missouri Preservation). Stepenoff is Professor Emerita of history at Southeast Missouri State University. Three of her five books were published by ... Read more
Reviews for Working the Mississippi
Bonnie Stepenoff’s account of life along the middle Mississippi in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries examines the stream’s allure and its impact on those who traversed its waters and inhabited the cities and towns along its banks. Cognizant of the river’s connections to history and the patterns of daily living, Stepenoff writes about people and places she knows and understands."" ... Read more