Where the River Runs Deep: The Story of a Mississippi River Pilot - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:LSU PressISBN-13:9780807124611ISBN-10:807124613UPC:9780807124611Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:United StatesBook Topic:State & LocalSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.67 inchesWeight:0.9612Product ID:SC5S28THMR
Where the River Runs Deep: The Story of a Mississippi River Pilot
Joy J. Jackson's Where the River Runs Deep tells two stories--both significant and both fascinating. It is a biography of the author's father, Oliver Jackson, who spent virtually his entire life on or near the Mississippi River. And it is a history of the river itself, and the many changes that have transformed it in the twentieth century.
Born in an oysterman's camp in south Louisiana, only a...Language:EnglishPublisher:LSU PressISBN-13:9780807124611ISBN-10:807124613UPC:9780807124611Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:United StatesBook Topic:State & LocalSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.67 inchesWeight:0.9612Product ID:SC5S28THMR
Joy J. Jackson, former professor of history and director of the Center for Regional Studies at Southeastern Louisiana University, was the author of New Orleans in the Gilded Age: Politics and Urban Progress, 1880-1896. She was the first woman to be elected president of the Louisiana Historical Association.
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