Grand Excursion, 1854-2004
Author | : Jim Franklin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Paddle steamers |
ISBN | : 9780963468925 |
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Author | : Jim Franklin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Paddle steamers |
ISBN | : 9780963468925 |
Author | : Paul Clifford Larson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Mississippi River |
ISBN | : 9781890434649 |
Meet the people who lived and worked and played along the Mighty Mississippi 150 years ago.
Author | : Curtis C. & Elizabeth M. Roseman & Roseman |
Publisher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2009-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1587294850 |
In 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 development. One hundred and fifty years later, the thirteen essays in this volume examine the activities and environments of the 1854 Grand Excursion and place them in the context of an evolving regional identity for the Upper Mississippi River Valley based on the economy, culture, geography, and history of the area. In a series of “excursions,” the contributors explore the building of the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad, eastern newspaper accounts of the 1854 excursion, steamboating, the area’s pictorial landscape, passenger trains along the scenic river, the genesis and features of river towns, the control of the river for navigation, the development of preserves, parks, and recreation areas, the lumber industry, and commercial fishing. The book concludes by examining the resurgence of river-oriented development, as river towns are once again embracing the Mississippi. Generously illustrated with maps, engravings, ephemera, and historic and present-day photographs, Grand Excursions on the Upper Mississippi River will be of interest to tourists and residents of the area, river aficionados, railroad and steamboat history buffs, as well as academics interested in the history, geography, and regional development of the area.
Author | : Jim Franklin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Grand Excursion |
ISBN | : 9780963468963 |
Historical account of the original 1854 Grand Excursion on the Mississippi River from Rock Island, Illinois to St. Paul, Minnesota ; account of the 2004 reenactment of the event ; and a historical account of paddlewheeling steamboats on the Upper Mississippi.
Author | : Watkins Incorporated |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738533100 |
The J.R. Watkins Company began in a back room of a small house in Plainview, Minnesota, in 1868. Through direct selling and innovative ideas like placing "Trial Marks" on bottles and offering money-back guarantees, Watkins grew from a one-man company into the world's largest direct selling company, an international corporation spanning North America, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and England. Today, the company is still in business selling the liniment that founder J.R. Watkins first bottled in 1868. With the help of nearly 40,000 sales associates worldwide, the Watkins name and its quality products are instantly recognizable to customers across the globe.
Author | : United States. Congress. House |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1872 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Legislation |
ISBN | : |
Some vols. include supplemental journals of "such proceedings of the sessions, as, during the time they were depending, were ordered to be kept secret, and respecting which the injunction of secrecy was afterwards taken off by the order of the House."
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 660 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jerry M. Hay |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0253348137 |
An exciting first-hand account of river travel
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 802 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Trademarks |
ISBN | : |