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To the people who know it best, the Mississippi River is life and a livelihood. River boatmen working the 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 and were in turn changed by it.

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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."" - William E. Foley, author of The First Chouteaus: River Barons of Early St. Louis

Working the Mississippi

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      Publisher: University of Missouri Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 6/30/2015 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780826220530, 978-0826220530
      ISBN10: 0826220533

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      To the people who know it best, the Mississippi River is life and a livelihood. River boatmen working the 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 and were in turn changed by it.

      Trade Review
      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."" - William E. Foley, author of The First Chouteaus: River Barons of Early St. Louis

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