I'd be remiss not to mention Neal Moore on this topic. He canoed the entire river in 2010 chronicling positive stories of people and places along the way as a CNN citizen journalist. Each chapter stands alone and focuses on a place and its people: the Ojibwe, Somali-Americans, inmates at The Farm, etc. It also describes the journey itself and includes a handful of close calls. Neal did the adventuring and the bulk of the writing, and I got to help. Looking forward to seeing many of you at the upcoming Clemens Conference in Hannibal! Cindy ________________________________ From: Mark Twain Forum <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Mac Donnell Rare Books <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Tuesday, July 9, 2019 1:51:10 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: canoing/boating down the Mississippi CAUTION:This email originated from outside of Stetson. Do not click on links or open any attachments unless you expected the attachments and know the sender. 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. Kevin @ Mac Donnell Rare Books 9307 Glenlake Drive Austin TX 78730 512-345-4139 Member: ABAA, ILAB, BSA You can browse our books at: www.macdonnellrarebooks.com<http://www.macdonnellrarebooks.com> MAC DONNELL RARE BOOKS<http://www.macdonnellrarebooks.com/> www.macdonnellrarebooks.com MAC DONNELL RARE BOOKS specializes in American & English literary first editions, including Mark Twain, Thoreau, Dickens, etc. ------ Original Message ------ From: "Hal Bush" <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Sent: 7/9/2019 1:08:19 PM 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... > > >Richard Campanella. Lincoln in New Orleans: The 1828–1831 Flatboat Voyages and Their Place in History. Lafayette: University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press, 2010. > > > >Dr. Hal Bush > >Dept. of English > >Saint Louis University > >[log in to unmask] > >314-977-3616 > >http://halbush.com > >author website: halbush.com > >________________________________ >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 >To: [log in to unmask] >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. > >Neidé, 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 >************************************************ >Dr Thomas Ruys Smith >Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Culture >Room A1.40 >University of East Anglia >Norwich >Norfolk >NR4 7TJ >United Kingdom > >Coming soon: Deep Water: The Mississippi River in the Age of Mark Twain: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__amzn.to_2JoEzqO&d=DwIFAA&c=Pk_HpaIpE_jAoEC9PLIWoQ&r=f7i-Uq4rMQU8-TBe45qVLg&m=1m7soEgWF7-lScVzoAz1jXtshDd6DbH56Th0xrryp_Q&s=w0YcroERXtcIyAXQoyqjCv6-HQxQ_0iGu8_RPXfOrt4&e= > >Co-editor Comparative American Studies: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.tandfonline.com_loi_ycas20&d=DwIFAA&c=Pk_HpaIpE_jAoEC9PLIWoQ&r=f7i-Uq4rMQU8-TBe45qVLg&m=1m7soEgWF7-lScVzoAz1jXtshDd6DbH56Th0xrryp_Q&s=a49vBILLbPTD0bXYUcho0u1_ubjtCgTnJpWDtuva8x8&e= > >E-mail: [log in to unmask] >Web: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__thomasruyssmith.com&d=DwIFAA&c=Pk_HpaIpE_jAoEC9PLIWoQ&r=f7i-Uq4rMQU8-TBe45qVLg&m=1m7soEgWF7-lScVzoAz1jXtshDd6DbH56Th0xrryp_Q&s=EO8qz9nfllp9iDwKGCqKpCBFnC6AlJLQJDHH8ALMbEk&e= >Twitter: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__twitter.com_ThomasRuysSmith&d=DwIFAA&c=Pk_HpaIpE_jAoEC9PLIWoQ&r=f7i-Uq4rMQU8-TBe45qVLg&m=1m7soEgWF7-lScVzoAz1jXtshDd6DbH56Th0xrryp_Q&s=sOPAjhCC3X8KBjf0LwipVYZPx5Mm74RhgeDiHlQ_2yg&e= > >************************************************ >________________________________ >From: Mark Twain Forum <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Mac Donnell Rare Books <[log in to unmask]> >Sent: 09 July 2019 18:22:56 >To: [log in to unmask] >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. > >Kevin >@ >Mac Donnell Rare Books >9307 Glenlake Drive >Austin TX 78730 >512-345-4139 >Member: ABAA, ILAB, BSA > >You can browse our books at: >https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com_-3Furl-3Dwww.macdonnellrarebooks.com-26amp-3Bdata-3D02-257C01-257CThomas.Smith-2540UEA.AC.UK-257C05239ed950f140992fd808d70492eac6-257Cc65f8795ba3d43518a070865e5d8f090-257C0-257C1-257C636982901372269054-26amp-3Bsdata-3DuUN213Yb591RwHiJbYsnKWA948S5MXTDRJ-252Fq882Qgq0-253D-26amp-3Breserved-3D0&d=DwIFAA&c=Pk_HpaIpE_jAoEC9PLIWoQ&r=f7i-Uq4rMQU8-TBe45qVLg&m=1m7soEgWF7-lScVzoAz1jXtshDd6DbH56Th0xrryp_Q&s=dtr4mG5fvsA1cgJRsvrJGXblMZpHn6mlKN_7HW-jm8A&e= >