Thanks. That's very helpful. Yes, I know those you mention from the 
1920s and 1938, but the other are new to me. The 1887 book I mentioned 
is by Willard Glazier. He and two friends made a trip down the river in 
1881. He met his wife in Hannibal where they spent three days--with no 
mention of Mark Twain.  Glazier made up for that omission when he later 
wrote a book about American cities and described Twain's home in 
Hartford.


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Subject: Re: canoing/boating down the Mississippi

>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...
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>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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>From: Mark Twain Forum <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Thomas Smith (AMA - Staff) <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Tuesday, July 9, 2019 12:54:12 PM
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>Hi Kevin,
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>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:
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>Bishop, Nathaniel H. Four Months in a Sneak-Box.1879.
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>Neidé, Charles A. The Canoe Aurora: A Cruise from the Adirondacks to the Gulf. 1885.
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>Wilkins, Ben C. Cruise of the “Little Nan,” Five Hundred Miles down the Mississippi River.
>1881.
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>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.
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>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).
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>It was nice to see the enthusiasm for Eddy Harris the other day - I agree that Mississippi Solo is a great book.
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>Best wishes,
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>Tom
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>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:
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>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.
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>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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