Research Catalog

Title

The valley of the Mississippi illustrated / by Henry Lewis ; translated from the German by A. Hermina Poatgieter ; edited with an introduction and notes by Bertha L. Heilbron.

Author

Lewis, Henry, 1819-1904

Publication

• St. Paul, MN : Minnesota Historical Society
• ©1967.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Poatgieter, Alice Hermina.
• Heilbron, Bertha L. (Bertha Lion), 1895-1972
• Minnesota Historical Society.

Description

xix, 423 pages, 78 leaves of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, map, portraits; 26 cm

Uniform Title

Illustrirte Mississippithal. English

Alternative Title

Illustrirte Mississippithal.

Subject

• Indians of North America > Mississippi River Valley
• Indians in art
• Indians in art
• Indians of North America
• Travel
• Iwi taketake
• Mississippi River > Description and travel
• Mississippi River
• Mississippi River Valley
• Mississippi (Fluss)

Genre/Form

Illustrated works.

Note

• Translation of Das illustrirte Mississippithal, first published in 1854.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliographical footnotes.

Contents

Translator's preface / A. Hermina Poatgieter -- Editor's preface ; Editor's introduction / Bertha L. Heilbron -- St. Louis -- Steamboat wooding at night -- Trempealeau Mountain -- Fort Snelling -- The Mississippi -- The Falls of St. Anthony: Ampata Saba, or the first wife -- The prairies -- The St. Peter's River: The Little Falls -- St. Paul: Fountain Cave; Carver's Cave -- Little Crow's village: Indian music, songs, and poetry; Red rock prairie; Medicine Bottle's village -- The St. Croix River -- Red Wing's village: La Grange -- Indian burial -- Lake Pepin: Maiden Rock -- Wabasha's village: Sha-co-pee, the Dakota orator -- The Chippewa River -- Indian hunting camp: Domestic arrangements and the Indian family; The Dog Dance -- A prairie fire -- The battle of Bad Axe -- The Chippewa Indians: Chippewa life and legends; Scalping -- Prairie du Chien -- The State of Wisconsin: The mouth of the Wisconsin River; Cassville, Wisconsin -- The Indian's lookout -- Dubuque, Iowa: The Tete des Morts River -- Galena, Illinois -- On the Fever River: The Great Manito -- Iowa and Illinois cities: Savanna, Illinois -- The western frontiersmen: their character and customs -- More Iowa and Illinois cities: Muscatine, Iowa; Muscatine Prairie -- Nauvoo, Illinois: the Mormon city: The prophet; The relics; The golden plates -- Cities and islands: Our encampment; Quincy, Illinois; Crescent Island -- The State of Illinois -- Cities, rivers, and cliffs: Grafton, Illinois; The Illinois River; Piasa Rock -- Explorations of the Mississippi Valley / J.M. Peck -- Alton and the bluffs: Portage des Sioux, Missouri; Alton, Illinois -- The Missouri River -- The great fire in St. Louis -- Carondelet, Missouri: Jefferson Barracks; Herculaneum, Missouri -- Indian mounds in Illinois: The Kaskaskia River; Chester, Illinois; The Grand Tower and Devil's Bake Oven; The Cornice Rocks -- The State of Missouri -- Cairo, Illinois, and the Ohio River -- Entering the South: Memphis, Tennessee; The southern states -- The South and slavery: Vicksburg, Mississippi -- General Taylor's residence -- Natchez, Mississippi -- The mouth of the Red River -- Louisiana sites and birds of the South: The Convent of the Sacred Heart; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Carrollton, Louisiana -- New Orleans: A sugar plantation -- The Gulf of Mexico.

LCCN

67065590

OCLC

• ocm00885977
• 885977
• SCSB-203337

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library