Land of Rivers : : America in Word and Image / / ed. by Peter C. Mancall.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Abbey, Edward,; Audubon, John James,; Bartram, William,; Bradstrect, Anne,; Carson, Rachel,; Champlain, Samuel de,; Clark, Ella E.,; Clark, William,; Cowie, Isaac,; Coxe, Tench,; Dillard, Annie,; Frost, Robert,; Graves, John,; Guthrie, Woody,; Hakluyt, Richard,; Hammerstcin, Oscar,; Hawthorne, Nathaniel,; Heat Moon, William Least,; Hoagland, Edward,; Hughes, Langston,; Instad, Helge,; Jefferson, Thomas,; Johnson, Willis Fletcher,; Judson, Phoebe Goodell,; Kalm, Peter,; Lewis, Meriwether,; Lilienthal, David E.,; Lopez, Barry,; Maclean, Norman,; Neihardt, John G.,; Newman, Randy,; Penn, William,; Poe, Edgar Allan,; Powell, John Wesley,; Sewall, Samuel,; Smythe, William E.,; Stegner, Wallace,; Stennett, Samuel,; Thoreau, Henry David,; Twain, Mark,; Webb, George,; Whitaker, Alexander,; Whitman, Walt,; Worster, Donald,; Zwmger, Ann,; deBuy, William,
• HerausgeberIn: Mancall, Peter C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 60 halftones

Rivers run deeply through the American consciousness. American Indians speculated about their origins in myths and legends. Settlers and adventurers exulted in their promise. Poets, artists, and songwriters paid tribute to their beauty. Engineers exploited their potential, and conservationists pleaded for their protection. The diversity of waterways, the range of their idiosyncracies, and the variety of responses they have inspired evoke the richness and complexity of the North American continent. For everyone who has listened to a river's song or floated along its surface or played on its banks, here is a book of images and voices which does justice to the beauty and diversity of rivers. The selections range from Samuel Sewell's mournful praise of the River Merrymak to John Wesley Powell's triumphant narrative on exploring the Colorado River, from Walt Whitman's ode on crossing Brooklyn Ferry to Oscar Hammerstein's melodic tribute to Ol'Man River. More than fifty descriptions, meditations, and songs, with brief introductory notes, are balanced by sixty illustrations, including the elegant landscape paintings of Albert Bierstadt, the landscapes of Frederic Church, and the haunting photographs of Ansel Adams.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction: River Cultures Of North America -- The Sixteenth And Seventeenth Centuries -- Excerpts From Indian Legends Of Tlie Pacific Northwest -- Excerpt From Inducements To The Liking Of The Voyage Intended Towards Virginia In 40 And 42 Degrees Of Latitude -- Excerpt From Voyages Of Samuel De Champlain -- Excerpt From "Good News From Virginia" -- Excerpt From "Contemplations" -- French Explorers On The Mississippi -- "Some Proposals For A Second Settlement In The Province Ofpennsylvania" -- The Eighteenth Century -- "Upon The Drying Up That Ancient River, The River Merrymak" -- Correspondence Of Benjamin Franklin And Mary Stevenson -- Excerpt From Travels In North America -- Excerpt From Notes On The State Of Virginia -- Excerpt From Travels -- "On Jordan's Stormy Banks" -- Excerpt From A View Of The United States Of America -- The Nineteenth Century -- Excerpt From Original Journals Of The Lewis And Clark Expedition -- "Morning On The Wissahiccon" -- Excerpt From Delineations Of American Scenery And Character -- "My Visit To Niagara" -- Excerpt From A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers -- Excerpt From A Pioneer's Search For An Ideal Home -- "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" -- Excerpt From The Company Of Adventurers -- Excerpt From The Exploration Of The Colorado River -- Excerpts From Life On The Mississippi [1883] And The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn -- Excerpt From History Of The Johnstown Flood -- Excerpt From The Conquest Of Arid America -- The Twentieth Century -- Excerpt From The River And I -- The Owens Valley-Los Angeles Controversy -- "The Negro Speaks Of Rivers" -- "Of Man River" -- "West-Running Brook" -- Excerpt From The Land Of Feast And Famine -- "Flat River Girl" -- Excerpt From TVA: Democracy On The March -- Excerpt From A Pima Remembers -- Excerpt From Goodbye To A River -- Excerpt From Silent Spring -- "Roll On, Columbia" -- Excerpt From Desert Solitaire -- Excerpt From The Wild And Scenic Rivers Act -- Excerpt From The Sound Of Mountain Water -- "Burn On" -- Excerpt From Pilgrim At Tinker Creek -- Excerpts From Run, River, Run -- Excerpts From A River Runs Through It -- Excerpt From River Notes: The Dance Of Herons -- Excerpt From Blue Highways -- Excerpt From Rivers Of Empire: Water, Aridity, And The Growth Of The American West -- Excerpt From River Of Traps -- Permissions