River fever : adventures on the Mississippi, 1969-1972 : a memoir

"Beginning in the spring of 1969, Huckleberry Finn inspired a question: Could you build a raft, float down the Mississippi River to New Orleans, and on the way learn something about America and its peoples? Will Bagley, a vagrant longhair and future prize-winning western historian, and his friends could, and did. Now, a half century after the adventure, Bagley tells his story."--Provided by the publisher. The fisherman The rivers of America Revolution in the air Black Hawk, John Adams, and the Sunset Marina Big river Free and easy and comfortable New Orleans or bust Old devil river When you learn to ramble, you learn to lose Lone Star Peak The strange mysteriousness Tornadoes Papoose Southbound Montezuma Bend All the rivers run into the sea.