Swift rivers

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.

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

Places: Mississippi River

Times: 19th century