Abraham Lincoln (the Mark Twain of our politicians) floated down the river, twice in fact. Biographers have often mentioned this but not long ago, a definitive study was published: it is particularly memorable for its exotic scenes of Creole culture in New Orleans around the time AL would have seen it...
Richard Campanella. Lincoln in New Orleans: The 1828–1831 Flatboat Voyages and Their Place in History. Lafayette: University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press, 2010.
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Subject: Re: canoing/boating down the Mississippi
Hi Kevin,
I don't know of a definitive list, but I have written about three canoe journeys from the early 1880s in my forthcoming book. They are:
Bishop, Nathaniel H. Four Months in a Sneak-Box.1879.
Neideě, Charles A. The Canoe Aurora: A Cruise from the Adirondacks to the Gulf. 1885.
Wilkins, Ben C. Cruise of the “Little Nan,” Five Hundred Miles down the Mississippi River.
1881.
The first two are readily available through Internet Archive. The Wilkins one I had to hunt down at the Newberry Library. There are also lots of interesting snippets about Mississippi expeditions in The American Canoeist magazine, which launched in 1882.
Judging by the dates below, it looks like you might already know about Albert Tousley's Where Goes the River from 1928, and Major Rowland Raven-Hart's Canoe Errant on the Mississippi from 1938. There are some good houseboat books too from the early twentieth century - Kent and Margaret Lighty's Shantyboat, Harold Speakman's Mostly Mississippi, William F. Waugh's The Houseboat Book from 1904, and John Lathrop Mathews' Log of the Easy Way (1911).
It was nice to see the enthusiasm for Eddy Harris the other day - I agree that Mississippi Solo is a great book.
Best wishes,
Tom
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Subject: canoing/boating down the Mississippi
I've been in and out of the office and meant to reply to the thread on
canoe trips down the Mississippi. I have a question:
Has anyone compiled a list of published accounts by people who have
boated down the Mississippi? I'm not talking about people on steamboats,
but solo excursions, or trips by very small groups of people (say six or
less), in small riverboats (skiffs, canoes, etc.), who traveled down the
entire river.
I only know of seven, the earliest in 1887, two in the 1920s, one in
1938, and the rest more recent.
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