000648924 000__ 02731cam\a2200385\i\4500 000648924 001__ 648924 000648924 005__ 20210515073748.0 000648924 008__ 121213s2013\\\\nyuab\\\\b\\\\001\0\eng\\ 000648924 010__ $$a 2012049786 000648924 019__ $$a827256874 000648924 020__ $$a9780805091366$$qhardcover 000648924 020__ $$a080509136X$$qhardcover 000648924 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocn822971529 000648924 035__ $$a648924 000648924 040__ $$aDLC$$beng$$erda$$cDLC$$dIG#$$dUPZ$$dBTCTA$$dBDX$$dUKMGB$$dLAP$$dABG$$dYDXCP$$dVP@$$dCDX$$dMNL$$dOCLCF 000648924 043__ $$an-usm--$$an------ 000648924 049__ $$aISEA 000648924 05000 $$aF351$$b.S345 2013 000648924 08204 $$a977$$223 000648924 1001_ $$aSchneider, Paul,$$d1962-$$eauthor. 000648924 24510 $$aOld Man River :$$bthe Mississippi River in North American history /$$cPaul Schneider. 000648924 250__ $$aFirst edition. 000648924 264_1 $$aNew York :$$bHenry Holt and Company,$$c2013. 000648924 300__ $$axiii, 394 pages :$$billustrations, maps ;$$c25 cm 000648924 336__ $$atext$$2rdacontent 000648924 337__ $$aunmediated$$2rdamedia 000648924 338__ $$avolume$$2rdacarrier 000648924 500__ $$a"A John Macrae book." 000648924 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 353-379) and index. 000648924 5050_ $$aThe American watershed -- River of giants : continents collide, glaciers recede, mastodons bellow, and humans arrive. Ice on the rocks ;The Missouri leviathan ; Bones and stones ; Broken arrows ; Mammoth season -- River of mounds : the rise and fall, and rise and fall, and rise of Native America. Among the effigies ; Poverty point ; 60,000 pearls ; The Mississippian moment ; The great serpent -- River of fortune : the Spanish exit, the French arrive, the Iroquois take action. Bonjour Great Khan ; In the Iroquois longhouse ; The American bottom ; The Illinois country ; Adrift ; The incomparable La Salle ; Nous sommes tous sauvages ; The wrath ; If the river don't rise -- River of empires : the English enter, the French exit, the Iroquois negotiate, and the Americans take over. The scramble for the Forks ; The half king ; Adieu New France ; The American watershed ; Allegheny mornings -- Life on the Mississippi : flatboats and keelboats, steamboats and showboats, songsters and soul drivers. Down a lazy river ; I long to see you ; Up the wicked river ; All aboard ; Down below -- River of blood : Lincoln and Davis, New Orleans and Vicksburg, victory and defeat. Blood on the tracks ; Anaconda ; Up in flames -- On the Lake of the Engineers : floods rise, levees rise, dams rise, while mountains fall and grasses sink. The mouth ; All the lists of clay ; Old Man River. 000648924 520__ $$aA fascinating account of how the Mississippi River shaped America. 000648924 650_0 $$aRiver life$$zMississippi River$$xHistory. 000648924 651_0 $$aMississippi River$$xHistory. 000648924 651_0 $$aMississippi River Valley$$xHistory. 000648924 651_0 $$aNorth America$$xHistory. 000648924 85200 $$bgen$$hF351$$i.S345$$i2013 000648924 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:648924$$pGLOBAL_SET 000648924 980__ $$aBIB 000648924 980__ $$aBOOK