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#1 I spent a year building a wooden flatboat and sailing it down the Mississippi to New Orleans. I was fascinated by the history of America's westward expansion and the economic woes of America following the American Revolution. I was entranced by the idea of sailing down the Mississippi River.
#2 Yoder built a wooden flatboat and sailed it down the Mississippi to New...
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"The eagerly awaited return of master American storyteller Rinker Buck, Life on the Mississippi is an epic, enchanting blend of history and adventure in which Buck builds a wooden flatboat from the grand 'flatboat era' of the 1800s and sails it down the Mississippi River, illuminating the forgotten past of America's first western frontier"--Amazon.com.