Exploring the Great Rivers of North America

Embark on a unique journey of varied personal adventures and historical highlights, a book that's every bit as engrossing, enlightening, and enchanting as the dozen enduring rivers it explores. Accompanied by dramatic photographs and period illustrations, Exploring the Great Rivers of North America chronicles how our continent's magnificent waterways have molded human history, interacting with conquistadores and colonists, trappers and explorers, steamboat pilots and God Rush prospectors, Native Americans and Amish farmers, and many, many others.