The Pirates of the Mississippi
Author | : Friedrich Gerstäcker |
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Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1856 |
Genre | : Mississippi River |
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Author | : Friedrich Gerstäcker |
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Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1856 |
Genre | : Mississippi River |
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Author | : Friedrich Gerstäcker |
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Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 1859 |
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Author | : Pirates of the Mississippi (Musical group) |
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Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Country music |
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Total Pages | : 99 |
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Author | : Friedrich Gerstäcker |
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Total Pages | : 596 |
Release | : 19?? |
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Author | : Friedrich Wilhelm Christian GERSTAECKER |
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Release | : 1856 |
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Author | : Douglas Hirt |
Publisher | : Berkley |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780515116533 |
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Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1951 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780395273999 |
Follows the adventures of Minn, a three-legged snapping turtle, as she slowly makes her way from her birthplace at the headwaters of the Mississippi River to the mouth of river on the Gulf of Mexico.
Author | : G. H. Mc Loughlin |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 2013-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781490965246 |
Pirates on the Mississippi is the story of the Revenue Cutter Louisiana, the first armed vessel of the United States to be stationed in the Territory of Orleans following the Louisiana Purchase. Its job was to enforce U.S. customs laws, and to insure that duties were paid on all goods imported into the new Territory. During the seven years that it operated in the port, the Louisiana patrolled the Gulf of Mexico and connecting bays and waterways, engaging in action petty smugglers, international privateers and ruthless pirates—including the forces of Jean Lafitte. This history of the cutter's daily operations is based on information extracted from the vessel's log sheets which are preserved in the National Archives in Fort Worth. During those periods for which the log sheets are missing or were not recorded, the Louisiana's activities were reconstructed from newspaper reports of the day, and the correspondence between the cutter's captains and government officials responsible for its operation. The Louisiana's story is made the more interesting by the antics of its two commanders, who, despite their eccentricities, demonstrated great courage and fighting spirit in challenging privateers and pirates whose vessels were generally bigger, faster and better armed.
Author | : Lee Sandlin |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2011-10-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307473570 |
A riveting narrative look at one of the most colorful, dangerous, and peculiar places in America's historical landscape: the strange, wonderful, and mysterious Mississippi River of the 19th century. Beginning in the early 1800s and climaxing with the siege of Vicksburg in 1863, Wicked River brings to life a place where river pirates brushed elbows with future presidents and religious visionaries shared passage with thieves. Here is a minute-by-minute account of Natchez being flattened by a tornado; the St. Louis harbor being crushed by a massive ice floe; hidden, nefarious celebrations of Mardi Gras; and the sinking of the Sultana, the worst naval disaster in American history. Here, too, is the Mississippi itself: gorgeous, perilous, and unpredictable. Masterfully told, Wicked River is an exuberant work of Americana that portrays a forgotten society on the edge of revolutionary change.