The following incomplete list of river-related references will continue to be updated as much as possible. Over the years, the various publications on this list have informed my viewpoint and understanding of nature, particularly with respect to rivers, history, and humanity’s influences on the natural world.
1. Non-fiction (technical)
Becker, C.D., and D.A. Neitzel, editors. 1992. Water quality in North American river systems. Battelle Press, Columbus, Ohio.
Gordon, N.G., T.A. McMahon, and B.L. Finlayson. 1992. Stream ecology: an introduction for ecologists. John Wily and Sons, West Sussex, England.
Kofoid, C.A. 1903. The plankton of the Illinois River, 1894-1899, with introductory notes upon the hydrography of the Illinois River and its basin. Part I. Quantitative investigations and general results. Volume VI, Article II. Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History, Urbana, Illinois.
Hynes, H.B.N. 1972. The ecology of running waters. University of Toronto Press, Ontario, Canada.
Lerczak, T.V. 2008. A baseline study of bird communities related to floodplain forest succession at Emiquon National Wildlife Refuge, Illinois. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Illinois State Academy of Science, Champaign, Illinois. A pdf file of the poster is available at Download Emiquon-NWR-Bird-Survey.
Malanson, G.P. 1993. Riparian landscapes. Cambridge University Press, New York, New York.
U.S. Geological Survey. 1999. Ecological status and trends of the Upper Mississippi River 1998: a report of the Long Term Resources Monitoring Program. U.S. Geological Survey, Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, LaCrosse, Wisconsin. April 1999. LTRMP 99-T001. 236 pp.
2. Non-fiction (general)
Abbey, E. 1981. Down the river. E.P. Putnam, New York, New York.
Ambrose, S.E., and D.G. Brinkley. 2002. The Mississippi and the making of a nation. National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C.
Anderson, L.S. 1992. Down the Mississippi. Bonus Books, Chicago, Illinois.
Anfinson, J.O. 2003. The river we have wrought: a history of the upper Mississippi. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis and London.
Ayars, J. The Illinois River. Holt, Reinhart amd Winston, New York, New York.
Botkin, D.B. 1995. Our natural history: the lessons of Lewis and Clark. G.P. Putnam’s Sons, New York, New York.
Brunner, D. 2000. Down the Mississippi with Stinky. Prairie Oak Press, Madison, Wisconsin.
Burroughs, F. 1992. The river home: a return to the Carolina low country. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York.
Clune, H.W. 1963. The Genesee. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, New York, New York.
Crutchfield, J.A. 2009. It happened on the Mississippi River. Globe Pequot Press, Guilford, Connecticut.
Dean Moore, K. 1995. Riverwalking: reflections on moving water. Harcourt Brace and Company, New York.
Derleth, A. 1942. The Wisconsin. The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wisconsin.
Dohan, M.H. Mr. Roosevelt's Steamboat: the first steamboat to travel the MIssissippi. Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, New York.
Eifert, V.S. 1959. River world: wild life of the Mississippi. Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, New York.
Eyden, P., M. McGuire, and R. McLeod. 1996. The Big River reader. Big River, Winona, Minnesota.
Feldman, J. 2005. When the Mississippi ran backwards. Free Press, New York, New York.
Fields, W. 1990. What the river knows: an angler in midstream. Poseidon Press, New York, New York.
Flippo, K. 1998. Between the saints: Louis and Paul. J.R. Simpson and Associates, Inc., Florissant, Missouri.
Forbath, P. 1977. The River Congo. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston.
Frater, A, editor. Great rivers of the world. Little, Brown and Company, Boston and Toronto.
Fremling, C.R. 2005. Immortal river. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wisconsin.
Gray, J. 1940. The Illinois. University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago, Illinois.
Gusewelle, C.W. 1994. A great current running; the U.S.-Russian Lena River expedition. The Lowell Press, Inc., Kansas City, Missouri.
Hall, B.C., and C.T. Wood. 1992. Big muddy: down the Mississippi through America's heartland. Penguin Books, New York, New York.
Hall, L. 1969. Stars upstream: life along an Ozark river. University of Missouri Press, Columbia, Missouri.
Harris, E.L. 1988. Mississippi solo: a river quest. Nick Lyons Books, New York, New York.
Hubbard, H. 1953. Shantyboat: a river way of life. The University of Kentucky Press, Lexington, Kentucky.
Jackson, J.P. 1984. Passages of a stream: a chronicle of the Meramec. University of Missouri Press, Columbia, Missouri.
Least Heat-Moon, W. 1999. River horse: the logbook of a boat across America. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York.
Lembke, J. 1989. River time: the frontier on the lower Neuse. Lyons and Burford, New York, New York.
Madson, J. Up on the river: an upper Mississippi chronicle. Nick Lyons Books, New York, New York.
Masters, E.L. 1942. The Sangamon. University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago, Illinois.
McDermott, J.F. 1968. Before Mark Twain. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale and Edwardsville, Illinois.
Millard, C. 2005. The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's darkest journey. Broadway Books, New York, New York.
Neihardt, J.G. 1968. The river and I. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London.
Overturf, D., and G. Marx. 2007. A river through Illinois. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale and Edwardsville, Illinois.
Palmer, T. American by rivers. Island Press, Washington, D.C.
Raban, J. 1981. Old glory: an American voyage. Penguin Books, New York, New York.
Redd, J. 1993. The Illinois and Michigan Canal. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale and Edwardsville, Illinois.
Russell, A. 1987. The life of a river. Voyageur Press, Inc., Stillwater, Minnesota.
Schroll, J.R. 1992. So Beautiful, this valley. Havana Printing, Inc., Havana, Illinois.
Spurr, D. 1998. River of forgotten days. Henry Holt and Company, New York, New York.
Stranahan, S.Q. 1993. Susquehanna, river of dreams. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London.
Twain, Mark. 1883. Life on the Mississippi. Harper and Brothers Publishers, New York and London. This edition was published in 1919.
Vestal, S. 1945. The Missouri. University of Nebraska, Lincoln and London.
Wolf, R., editor. 2005. River days: stories from the Mississippi. Free River Press, Lansing, Iowa.
3. Fiction
Duncan, D.J. 1983. The river why. Bantam Books, New York, New York.
Franklin, J. 1997. Dancing along the Mississippi. Popcorn Press, McGregor, Iowa.
Gear, W.M. 1996. The morning river. Tom Doherty and Associates, New York, New York.
Gear, W.M., and K. O’Neal Gear. 1992. People of the river. Tom Doherty and Associates, New York, New York.
Hassler, J. 2002. The Staggerford flood. Plume, published by the Penguin Group, New York.
McMurtry, L. 2002-2004. The Berrybender narratives (Sin killer, The wandering hill, By sorrow’s river, folly and glory). Simon and Schuster, New York.
Twain, Mark. 1894. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Edition published in 2001 by The Mark Twain Library, University of California Press , Berkeley and Los Angeles, California.
Urquhart, J. 1986. The whirlpool. David R. Godine, Publisher, Boston.
Vaughan, C.A. 1968. The river devils. Doubleday and Company, Inc., Garden City, New York.
4. Periodicals
Big Muddy: A Journal of the Mississippi River Valley. Southeast Missouri State University Press. Web Site: http://www6.semo.edu/universitypress/bigmuddy/index.htm
Big River Magazine (ISSN 1070-8340). Web site: www.big-river.com
5. Miscellaneous
Havera, S.P., K.E. Roat, and L.L. Anderson. 2003. The Thompson Lake/Emiquon story: the biology, drainage, and restoration of an Illinois River bottomland lake. Illinois Natural History Survey Special Publication 25. iv + 40 pp.
U.S. Geological Survey. 1987. The largest rivers in the United States. Open File Report 87-242. U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior.
