San Antonio College Library

"The mighty Mississippi" has inspired writers and artists for centuries. During the nineteenth century, Mississippi River towns attracted artists who traveled throughout the United States producing detailed drawings of cities and towns, which were then printed and sold as lithographs or used as wood engravings to illustrate books and magazines. Depicting each street and building, as well as the natural setting and geographic features of the surrounding...

The early history of St. Louis and French activities in the Mississippi Valley are described from many aspects in these fourteen papers originally presented at a conference observing the 200th anniversary of the founding of St. Louis by Pierre de Laclède on Feb. 15, 1764.

In The Big Muddy, The First Long-Term Environmental History Of The Mississippi, Christopher Morris offers a brilliant tour across five centuries as he illuminates the interaction between people and the landscape, from early hunter-gatherer bands to present-day industrial and post-industrial society. Morris shows that when Hernando de Soto arrived at the lower Mississippi Valley, he found an incredibly vast wetland, forty thousand square miles of...

Beginning with Ponce de León and ending with Washington and Jefferson, this narrative history for young people covers three hundred years of the most interesting and dramatic period in our history.

France and England in North America is a two-volume history of the European colonization of North America written by Francis Parkman between 1865 and 1892, which highlights the military struggles between France and Great Britain. It was well regarded at the time of publication, and continues to enjoy a reputation as a literary masterpiece. While it is still useful in a limited capacity as an historical study, Parkman took many liberties in describing...