Flint River, Iowa, at Starr's Cave Nature Preserve
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.
Andrews, G. 2019. My daddy's blues: A childhood memoir from the land of Huck and Jim. Mudcat Press, San Marcos, Texas.
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.
Becknell, T. 2022. Enchantments of the Mississippi. Beaver's Pond Press, Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Bissell, R. 1973. My life on the Mississippi or Why I am not Mark Twain. Little, Brown and Company, Boston-Toronto.
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.
Buchanan, T.C. 2004. Black life on the Mississippi. The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill and London.
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.
Eifert, V.S. 1961. Louis Jolliet: Explorer of rivers. 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.
Fischer, K. 2006. Dreaming the Mississippi. University of Missouri Press, Columbia and London.
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.
Gargan, E.A. 2002. The river's tale: a year on the Mekong. Vintage Departures, Vintage Books, New York.
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.
Hamm, D. and D. Bakke. 1996. The last of the market hunters. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale and Edwardsville.
Harris, E.L. 1988. Mississippi solo: a river quest. Nick Lyons Books, New York, New York.
Havighurst, W. 1964. Voices on the river: the story of the Mississippi waterways. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis.
Higgins, K.F. 2004. Childhood memories from the west bank of the Illinois River. Pine Hill Press, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
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.
Kitt Chappell, S.A. 2002. Cahokia: mirror of the cosmos. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London.
Klinkenberg, D. 2022. Mississippi River mayhem. Globe Pequot, Connecticut.
Knudsen, M. and S. Plank. 1998. Old man river and me: one man's journey down the mighty Mississippi. Rutledge Hill Press, Nashville, Tennessee.
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.
Lichter, N. 2004. The road of souls: reflections on the Mississippi. Wing Dam Press, Ferryville, Wisconsin.
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.
McCann, D. 2017. This storied river: legends and lore of the upper Mississippi. Wisconsin Historical Society Press, Madison, Wisconsin.
McDermott, J.F. 1968. Before Mark Twain. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale and Edwardsville, Illinois.
Miller, B. 2013. River bend chronicle: the junkification of a boyhood idyll and the curious glory of urban Iowa. Lookout Books, University of North Carolina, Wilmington.
Millard, C. 2005. The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's darkest journey. Broadway Books, New York, New York.
Mullen, T. 2004. Rivers of change: trailing the waterways of Lewis and Clark. Roundwood Press, Malibu, California.
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.
Park, B.E. 2020. Kingdom of Nauvoo. Liveright Publishing Corporation, New York, New York.
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.
Schneider, P. 2014. Old man river: the Mississippi River in North American history. Henry Holt and Company, New York.
Schroll, J.R. 1992. So Beautiful, this valley. Havana Printing, Inc., Havana, Illinois.
Smith, T.R. 2007. River of dreams. Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge.
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.
Theler, J.L. and R.F. Boszhardt. 2003. Twelve millennia: archaeology of the upper Mississippi River valley. University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, Iowa.
Thwaites, R.G. 1897. A float on the Ohio. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, Illinois.
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
Bissel, R. 1954. High water. eNet Press, Lake Oswego, Oregon.
Bissell, R. 1987. A stretch of the river: a novel of adventure on a Mississippi River towboat. Minnesota Historical Society Press, St. Paul, Minnesota.
Collins, X.H. 2020. Flowing water, falling flowers. MWC Press, Rock Island, Illinois.
Delaney, F. 2009. Shannon. Random House, New York.
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.
Haring, J.H. 2014. Annamanda: a novel of courage. Southeast Missouri State University Press, Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
Hassler, J. 2002. The Staggerford flood. Plume, published by the Penguin Group, New York.
Leach, P. 2011. Gone by sundown. Gival Press, Arlington, Virginia.
Lesmeister, K.P. 2023. Mississippi river museum. WTAT Press, Santa Rosa, California.
McMurtry, L. 2002-2004. The Berrybender narratives (Sin killer, The wandering hill, By sorrow’s river, folly and glory). Simon and Schuster, New York.
Swingle, M. 2007. Bootheel man. Southeast Missouri State University Press, Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
Toohey, J. 2018. Taming the twisted. Wordsy Woman Press, Davenport, Iowa.
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.
Wolfe, T. 1935. Of time and the river. The Sun Dial Press, Garden City, New York.
4. Periodicals
Big Muddy: A Journal of the Mississippi River Valley. Southeast Missouri State University Press. Web Site: https://www6.semo.edu/universitypress/bigmuddy/index.htm
Big River Magazine (ISSN 1070-8340). Web site: www.big-river.com
Mark Twain Journal. Web site: www.marktwainjournal.com
5. Miscellaneous
Havera, S.P. 2001. Man's effects on the ecology of the Illinois River system. Pages 39 - 47 in A.M. Strawn , editor. Proceedings of the 2001 Governor's Conference on the Illinois River System, Special Report No. 27. Illinois Water Resources Center, University of Illinois at Champaign, Urbana, Illinois. Download at https://ilrdss.sws.uiuc.edu/pubs/2001_Governors_Conference.pdf
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.