Grand excursions on the upper Mississippi River : places, landscapes, and regional identity after 1854
Title:
Grand excursions on the upper Mississippi River : places, landscapes, and regional identity after 1854
JLCTITLE245:
edited by Curtis C. Roseman and Elizabeth M. Roseman.
Publication Information:
Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2004]
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiv, 252 pages) : illustrations, maps
ISBN:
9781587294853
Series:
Abstract:
N June 1854 the Grand Excursion celebrated in festive style the completion of the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad to the Mississippi River. Hundreds of dignitaries including newspaper editors and other journalists; politicians; academics, writers and artists; business and industry leaders; and railroad officials were among those who traveled by rail from Chicago to Rock Island, Illinois, then by steamboat to St. Paul in Minnesota Territory. The travelers were shown a region undergoing rapid settlement by Europeans-an area of great natural beauty offering many promises for additional developme.
Local Note:
UAF Rasmuson Library Ebook Central subscription access.
UAS/JPL: EBSCO Academic Subscription.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-235) and index.
Contents:
Upper Mississippi and the Grand Excursion / Curtis C. Roseman, Dick Stahl, Elizabeth M. Roseman -- Building a mighty fine line : the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad / Roald D. Tweet -- Grand Excursion of 1854 / William J. Petersen -- East looks at the West / Susan R. Brooker-Gross -- Steaming up the river / Edwin L. Hill -- Picturesque Mississippi / Patrick Nunnally -- Towns to visit : sights (sites) to see / John A. Jakle -- Where nature smiles three hundred miles : rail travel along the river / Jeff Crump.
Highway to empire : remaking the river / John O. Anfinson -- Preservation and management of the river's natural resources / Gary C. Meyer -- River of logs / Gayle Rein -- Fishing the father of waters / Malcolm L. Comeaux -- Renewals and reinventions : river towns on the Upper Mississippi / Norman Moline, Charles Mahaffey.
Source of Description Note:
Print version record.