UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER HISTORY Fact--Fiction--Legend

Larson, Ron, Capt.

ISBN 10: 0964093707 / ISBN 13: 9780964093706

Published by Steamboat Press (1995), Winona, MN, 1995

About this Item

Winona, MN: Steamboat Press. VG/No Dustjacket. (1995). First American Edition. Pictorial Boards. Signed by the author . 4to., 122 pp. .

Seller Inventory # BOOKS285195

Bibliographic Details

• Title: UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER HISTORY Fact--Fiction--Legend
• Publisher: Steamboat Press (1995), Winona, MN
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0964093707
• ISBN 13: 9780964093706
• Binding: Pictorial Boards
• Illustrator: Black & White Photographs
• Edition: First American Edition.
• Condition: VG/No Dustjacket
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Travel-Mississippi River

About this title

Synopsis

Captian Ron's book "UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER HISTORY" begins with the early French explorers and hardy fur trappers. He covers the history of the paddle-wheel steamboats from the first one on the Mississippi River in 1811, the "NEW ORLEANS",to the fonding and growth of the paddle-wheel steamboat companies on the upper Mississippi River -- from passenger and freight steamboats to excursion paddle-wheel steamboats of today.

You will find photographs and early historical stories of the upper Mississippi river towns from St.Louis, Missouri, to Minneapolis, Minnesota.

added to all this history are stories and tales from river pilots about the names and landmarks along the upper Mississippi River.

About the Author

Captian Ron Larson,U.S.M.M. Ret., began working on the upper Mississippi River in 1956 after serving in the United States Navy during World WAr II in the South Pacific. Most of Captain Ron's piloting was on the upper Mississippi River on towboats between St.Louis, Missouri, and St. Paul,Minnesota, with an occasional trip on most of the other navigable rivers. He has experience piloting stern Paddle-wheel boats, twin,triple,and single screw towboats up to 4600 horsepower, pushing tows upto 1190 feet in length. Now during Captian Ron's retirement years he still does part-timg piloting on the river excursion boats, He has worked on the "Mississippi Queen", "Delta Queen", "Valley Queen", M"Mississippi Belle","Jubilee", and "Mark twain".