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Pages: 271
Pages: 271
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-09-01 - Publisher: University of Iowa Press
In June 1854 the Grand Excursion celebrated in festive style the completion of the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad to the Mississippi River. Hundreds of dignit
Language: en
Pages: 250
Pages: 250
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher:
Language: en
Pages: 294
Pages: 294
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher:
"In June 1854, to celebrate completion of the first railroad to reach the Mississippi River, the owners of the Chicago & Rock Island invited hundreds of shareho
Language: en
Pages: 201
Pages: 201
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-03-03 - Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
In This Storied River, longtime journalist Dennis McCann takes us on an intimate tour of the Upper Mississippi—from Dubuque, Iowa, to the Minnesota headwaters
Language: en
Pages: 228
Pages: 228
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher:
Historical account of the original 1854 Grand Excursion on the Mississippi River from Rock Island, Illinois to St. Paul, Minnesota ; account of the 2004 reenact