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New for 2009... two excellent anthologies from steam historian, Michael Gillespie. WILD RIVER, WOODEN BOATS is a witty anthology and commentary based mostly on original sources. Focused on the history of travel on the Missouri River, from skin boats to Steamboats. $15.99 COME HELL OR HIGH WATER is Gillespie's definitive look at the history of steamboating on the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. This anthology is completely footnoted, filled with historic photos and charts, and includes a complete glossary index, and bibliography. 340 pages $19.99 Michael Gillespie has been featured on the Discovery Channel and passengers on the American Queen may recognize him as their knowledgeable DISCOVERY GUIDE!
Review of WILD RIVER, WOODEN BOATS by Michael Gillespie. Review by JAMES SWIFT, Waterways Journal, St. Louis, MO WILD RIVER, WOODEN BOATS is witty look at the history of transportation on the Missouri River from skin boats to steam. An excellent anthology of original sources and detailed sketches and historic photographs.
P. 1 of 2.... of ONE MAN story in the Lakeland Ledger. "The Rivers don't sing any more. Not the way they did when Capt. Norman Hillman was young!" Purchase ONE MAN and other great river books at www.greatriverarts.com/shopping/riverbooks.htm
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Auburndale Sun... "a great story of one man's life on the Mississippi River, the Ohio River, the Tennessee, and any other great American river flowing toward the Gulf." ONE MAN and the MIGHTY MISSISSIPPI can be purchased online at www.greatriverarts.com/shopping/riverbooks.htm $21.95 Or PHONE us at 888-255-7726.
Winter Haven review of ONE MAN AND THE MIGHTY MISSISSIPPI by Capt. Norman Hillman. Great Reading!
"Caroline, Wilderness Woman", Feature story, P. 2 Since 1996, author Pat Middleton has been writing and rewriting an historical fiction novel based on the 10 page/10 year diary left by a young Illinois woman who followed the Keokuk and Blackhawk into Iowa and as they migrated westward along the Des Moines River. Her husband was a Trader associated with the American Fur Company out of St. Louis. Caroline found that with William most often needed in the courthouse at St. Louis, she became the storekeeper. Caroline negotiated her trade and raised 3 children in the Iowa wilderness of the 1830s. All three survived.
New for 2009... two excellent anthologies from steam historian, Michael Gillespie.

WILD RIVER, WOODEN BOATS is a witty anthology and commentary based mostly on original sources. Focused on the history of travel on the Missouri River, from skin boats to Steamboats. $15.99

COME HELL OR HIGH WATER is Gillespie's definitive look at the history of steamboating on the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. This anthology is completely footnoted, filled with historic photos and charts, and includes a complete glossary index, and bibliography. 340 pages $19.99

Michael Gillespie has been featured on the Discovery Channel and passengers on the American Queen may recognize him as their knowledgeable DISCOVERY GUIDE!
New for 2009... two excellent anthologies from steam historian, Michael Gillespie. WILD RIVER, WOODEN BOATS is a witty anthology and commentary based mostly on original sources. Focused on the history of travel on the Missouri River, from skin boats to Steamboats. $15.99 COME HELL OR HIGH WATER is Gillespie's definitive look at the history of steamboating on the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. This anthology is completely footnoted, filled with historic photos and charts, and includes a complete glossary index, and bibliography. 340 pages $19.99 Michael Gillespie has been featured on the Discovery Channel and passengers on the American Queen may recognize him as their knowledgeable DISCOVERY GUIDE!
New for 2009... two excellent anthologies from steam historian, Michael Gillespie.

WILD RIVER, WOODEN BOATS is a witty anthology and commentary based mostly on original sources. Focused on the history of travel on the Missouri River, from skin boats to Steamboats. $15.99

COME HELL OR HIGH WATER is Gillespie's definitive look at the history of steamboating on the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. This anthology is completely footnoted, filled with historic photos and charts, and includes a complete glossary index, and bibliography. 340 pages $19.99

Michael Gillespie has been featured on the Discovery Channel and passengers on the American Queen may recognize him as their knowledgeable DISCOVERY GUIDE!
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