After an exhausting day of hard labour, Ben finds oblivion in the seedy bars and clubs of River Road – anything to leave his cockroach-infested rooms and igno

Recounts seventeen-year-old Abraham Lincoln's hazardous raft trip down the Mississippi River to New Orleans to sell provisions.

Few thoroughfares offer as rich a history as Louisiana's River Road between New Orleans and Baton Rouge. This book provides a revised introduction, images, and