Preface: The Best of Volume 1 | p. viii |
How to Use This Book, Expanded 5th Edition | p. xi |
Chapter 1 Geology, Geography, Natural Resources of the Upper Mississippi River Valley | p. 1 |
Forests |
Early Settlers |
Weather |
Geology |
Geography |
Natural Resources |
Chapter 2 Pierce County-National Scenic Byway | p. 7 |
Prescott |
St. Croix River |
Kinnickinnic State Park |
Diamond Bluff |
Bay City and Maiden Rock |
Wisconsin |
Hastings |
Insight Interview: The Artists of Stockholm and the "Fiddler" of Grey Cloud Island |
Chapter 3 The Minnesota Shore | p. 31 |
Red Wing |
Frontenac |
Wabasha |
Reads Landing and Lake City |
Minnesota |
Special Features: Lamplighter Ladies |
Chapter 4 Pepin County-"Little House" Country | p. 41 |
Lake Pepin |
Stockholm |
Pepin and Nelson |
Wisconsin |
Special Features: Little Sweden, Fort St. Antoine: The French Era, Lamplighter Ladies |
Chapter 5 Buffalo County- Gateway to the Northern Forests | p. 53 |
Alma |
Buffalo City |
Cochrane |
Merrick State Park |
Fountain City and Bluff Siding |
Wisconsin |
Winona and Homer |
Minnesota |
Special Features: Beef Slough Wars/Logging on the Mississippi |
Insight Interview: Armistice Day Storm of 1940, Tundra Swans on Rieck's Lake, 1805 Zebulon Pike map |
Chapter 6 Trempealeau County-The Garden of Eden | p. 81 |
Trempealeau Wildlife Area |
Perrot State Park |
Village of Trempealeau |
Trempealeau Mountain |
McGilvray Bridges and City of Galesville |
Special Features: The True Garden of Eden, the Black River, Decorah's Peak |
Chapter 7 La Crosse County-Crossroads | p. 97 |
Holmen |
Onalaska |
La Crosse |
Wisconsin |
La Crescent |
Minnesota |
Special Features: History of La Crosse, Brice Prairie |
Insight Interview: Mayor of Dakota, MN |
Chapter 8 Vernon County-Where Fishing Is King | p. 115 |
Stoddard |
Genoa |
Victory |
De Soto and National Fish Hatchery |
Special Features: Clamming on the Mississippi, The Black Hawk Wars |
Insight Interview: Commercial Fishing, "There be Rattlers in those Bluffs" |
Chapter 9 Alamakee and Clayton Counties-Iowa's Surprising Northeast Corner | p. 135 |
Lansing |
Harper's Ferry |
Marquette |
McGregor |
Pike's Peak |
Guttenberg |
Special Features: Prehistoric Mound Groups, Artesian wells and "Diamond Jo" Reynolds |
Insight: What's the Name of That Slough? |
Chapter 10 Crawford County-Rendezvous! | p. 157 |
Ferryville |
Lynxville |
Prairie du Chien and Fort Crawford |
Special Features: The Fur Traders, Wild Hog Hunt |
Chapter 11 Grant County-Wisconsin's Oldest County | p. 175 |
Wyalusing State Park |
Nelson Dewey State Park |
Stonefield Village |
Cassville |
Potosi |
Dickeyville |
Special Features: "Port of Potosi"; Wisconsin's "Old Copper Culture"; First Governor, Nelson Dewey; Father Mazzuchelli, Pioneer Priest, Locks and Dams Illustrated |
Chapter 12 Dubuque, Iowa-Old Beginnings | p. 195 |
Special Feature: Steamboat's Comin', Locking Through with the Julia Belle Swain |
Guide to River Miles | p. 208 |
Appendix | p. 209 |
1783 French Map of the Upper Mississippi |
Brief History of the Upper Mississippi River |
Where to Look for Birds along the Mississippi River |
Insight Interview: Fred Lesher, Bird-Watcher |
Credits | p. 211 |
Tourism Contacts and the Mississippi River | p. 214 |
Complete Index to Volume 1 | p. 217 |
About the Author | p. 223 |
How to Order All our American River | p. 224 |