Swift rivers

By Cornelia Meigs

Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life, Mississippi river, fiction, Fiction, Logging, Frontier and pioneer life, fiction, Children's fiction, Newbery Honor, History

Description: In 1835, after being turned out by his mean-spirited uncle, Chris Dahlberg decides to harvest some of the timber on his grandfather's land in Minnesota and float the giant logs down the Mississippi River to market in St. Louis.