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Reliving the Grand Excursion of 1854
出版Afton Historical Society Press, 2004
主題History / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)Juvenile Nonfiction / History / United States / State & LocalJuvenile Nonfiction / People & Places / United States / General
ISBN18904346479781890434649
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=NKkJAAAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋The Grand Excursion of 1854 brought 1200 people to the edge of the world. Of course, they knew the actual world went far beyond the Mississippi River. But they were city folk. To them a world without large citites, thriving businesses, and factories belching clouds of black smoke was still "savage." The small settlements between Davenport and St. Anthony hardly made an impression, and Indians were regarded as exotic and fearsome creatures. When the excursionists debarked in St. Paul, they immediately jumped onto stages and wagons bound for the Falls of St. Anthony. What they wanted all along was a taste of nature in the raw. What they saw as participants during their seven-day "Grand Excursion" more than answered their expectations in beauty and rugged spectacle.