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Gr 5-8 The role of transportation in national history has seldom been more clearly delineated than in this meticulous treatment. Spanning prehistory to the 19th century, the sparkling text, inflected with wry humor, focuses sequentially on the Hudson River and Erie Canal, the Ohio, Mississippi, Missouri, Rio Grande, and the Colorado Rivers, and the Columbia River. Each chapter begins with quotations pertaining to the river, from the literary to songs such as "Fifteen Miles on the Erie Canal" and "Roll On, Col...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

This book focuses on America's major rivers, including the Hudson (and the Erie Canal), Mississippi, and Columbia. In small, hard-to-...Log In or Sign Up to Read More