Research Catalog
Working the Mississippi Two Centuries of Life on the River
- Title
- Working the Mississippi [electronic resource] : Two Centuries of Life on the River / Bonnie Stepenoff.
- Author
- Stepenoff, Bonnie, 1949-
- Publication
- Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2015
- Columbia, Missouri : University of Missouri Press, [2015]
Details
- Additional Authors
- Project Muse.
- Description
- 1 online resource (1 PDF (xxii, 182 pages) :) : illustrations.
- Summary
- The Mississippi River occupies a sacred place in American culture and mythology. Often called The Father of Rivers, it winds through American life in equal measure as a symbol and as a topographic feature. To the people who know it best, the river is life and a livelihood. River boatmen working the wide 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. Each chapter of this fast-moving narrative focuses on representative workers: captains and pilots, gamblers and musicians, cooks and craftsmen. Readers will find workers who are themselves part of the country's mythology from Mark Twain and anti-slavery crusader William Wells Brown to musicians Fate Marable and Louis Armstrong.
- Uniform Title
- Working the Mississippi (Online)
- Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Alternative Title
- Working the Mississippi (Online)
- Subject
- Note
- Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-173) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on print version record.
- Contents
- Introduction -- St. Louis, Missouri -- Captains -- Ste. Genevieve, Missouri -- Pilots -- Chester, Illinois -- Mates, deckhands, and roustabouts -- Cape Girardeau, Missouri -- Stewards, cooks, and maids -- Cairo, Illinois -- Engineers -- New Madrid, Missouri -- Confidence men and gamblers -- Memphis, Tennessee -- Musicians and entertainers -- Conclusion -- Appendix One. Glossary of names -- Appendix Two. Glossary of boats.
- OCLC
- ssj0001526324
- Author
- Stepenoff, Bonnie, 1949-
- Title
- Working the Mississippi [electronic resource] : Two Centuries of Life on the River / Bonnie Stepenoff.
- Imprint
- Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2015 (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)Columbia, Missouri : University of Missouri Press, [2015] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
- Series
- Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-173) and index.
- Access
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Project Muse.
- Other Form:
- Print version: (DLC) 2015940296 0826220533 9780826220530