Grand excursions on the upper Mississippi River : places, landscapes, and regional identity after 1854 /
"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 traveled by rail from Chicago to Rock Island, Illinois, then by steamboat to St. Paul in Minnesota Territory. One hundred and fi...
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
[2004]
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Table of 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.