Settlements of the Mississippi River
Settlements of the Mississippi River

Author: Rob Bowden

Publisher: Capstone Classroom

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13: 9781403457240

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Explores the history of the Mississippi River as a major trade route, looks at cities such as St. Louis and New Orleans, which once were small trading villages, are now large cities with millions of people.

The Present State of the European Settlements on the Mississippi
The Present State of the European Settlements on the Mississippi

Author: Philip Pittman

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-11

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 9780265172506

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Excerpt from The Present State of the European Settlements on the Mississippi: With a Geographical Description of That River Illustrated by Plans and Draughts Respecting Philip Pittman, the author of the book that is here reprinted, but few biographical data are obtainable. It appears from the British Army Lists that he was commissioned an ensign July I 3, 1760 and he is reported as an ensign in the 48th Regi ment Of Foot in the Lists for 1761, 1762, and 1763. By the Peace of Paris England Obtained from France all of Louisiana east of the Mississippi River except the Isle of Orleans, and from Spain the prov ince of Florida. It immediately became necessary to occupy and to organize this newly acquired ter ritory. August 7, 1763 the grd Battery of Royal Artillery from Havana received Pensacola from the Spanish commandant, and October 20 a de tachment of Highlanders received Mobile from the French. Pittman must have come with the first British troops or soon afterward, since he says that he resided five years as an engineer in those parts and it is definitely known that he left them toward the close of 1768. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Expansion of New England; the Spread of New England Settlement and Institutions to the Mississippi River, 1620-1865
The Expansion of New England; the Spread of New England Settlement and Institutions to the Mississippi River, 1620-1865

Author: Lois Kimball Mathews Rosenberry

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 9781230242200

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ... remove to some more productive region, or else to change one's occupation, -- a thing not so easy of accomplishment a hundred years ago as it is to-day. Letters sent back by a Hugh White, telling of the marvelous yield of his farm in central New York, proved irresistible to his former Connecticut neighbors, and out to Whitesboro and its vicinity they moved, that they, too, might profit by the extraordinary prodigality of nature. The prairies of Illinois and Wisconsin were far preferable to a stony, hilly patch of ground in the "Granite State," when once their attractions had been set forth in gazetteer and guide-book.1 To obtain a farm of a goodly size, -- that has been the object of the majority of emigrants from the beginning. Inseparably connected with the search for land there has often been discontent with existing conditions, -- social, economic, religious, and political. When a church quarrel arose, what need was there to yield or to compromise, when the disgruntled minority could have its will in another region not far away? There was no necessity for yielding to the will of a majority with which one did not agree when wide stretches of unoccupied land were inviting settlers who could do as they pleased. With this assurance, excessive independence and assertive individuality needed no curb, for there was room for all ideas, political and social. The contented, the prosperous, the conservative, -- these 1 The number of these guide-books and gazetteers, such as Peck's, which were issued from 1S30 to 1850 is astonishing, and their influence in attracting settlers to the West must have been great. Every detail of expense by canal, steamboat, and stage is there, with minute descriptions of infant settlements in need of farmers and...

Relation of the Discovery of the Mississippi River
Relation of the Discovery of the Mississippi River

Author: Nicolas De La Salle

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-08-02

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 9781390913354

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Excerpt from Relation of the Discovery of the Mississippi River: Written From the Narrative of Nicolas De La Salle, Otherwise Known as the Little M. De La Salle Commissary in the first settlement of Louisiana, from 1701 to 1709. He had no tie of relationship with the head of the enterprise and was, if I am not mistaken, the son of a Chief Clerk of the Marine, who became in 1687 Commissary General of the galleys. The author of the manuscript collection from which this narrative is drawn, prefixed the following note: I wrote this relation in 1685; it was given me by young de La Salle. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Expansion of New England: The Spread of New England Settlement and Institutions to the Mississippi River, 1620-1865
The Expansion of New England: The Spread of New England Settlement and Institutions to the Mississippi River, 1620-1865

Author: Lois Kimball Mathews Rosenberry

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2018-02-15

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9781377589640

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They Called Us River Rats
They Called Us River Rats

Author: Macon Fry

Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

Published: 2021-05-04

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 1496833090

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They Called Us River Rats: The Last Batture Settlement of New Orleans is the previously untold story of perhaps the oldest outsider settlement in America, an invisible community on the annually flooded shores of the Mississippi River. This community exists in the place between the normal high and low water line of the Mississippi River, a zone known in Louisiana as the batture. For the better part of two centuries, batture dwellers such as Macon Fry have raised shantyboats on stilts, built water-adapted homes, foraged, fished, and survived using the skills a river teaches. Until now the stories of this way of life have existed only in the memories of those who have lived here. Beginning in 2000, Fry set about recording the stories of all the old batture dwellers he could find: maritime workers, willow furniture makers, fishermen, artists, and river shrimpers. Along the way, Fry uncovered fascinating tales of fortune tellers, faith healers, and wild bird trappers who defiantly lived on the river. They Called Us River Rats also explores the troubled relationship between people inside the levees, the often-reviled batture folks, and the river itself. It traces the struggle between batture folks and city authorities, the commercial interests that claimed the river, and Louisiana’s most powerful politicians. These conflicts have ended in legal battles, displacement, incarceration, and even lynching. Today Fry is among the senior generation of “River Rats” living in a vestigial colony of twelve “camps” on New Orleans’s river batture, a fragment of a settlement that once stretched nearly six miles and numbered hundreds of homes. It is the last riparian settlement on the Lower Mississippi and a contrarian, independent life outside urban zoning, planning, and flood protection. This book is for everyone who ever felt the pull of the Mississippi River or saw its towering levees and wondered who could live on the other side.