The lance, cross and canoe : the flatboat, rifle and plough in the valley of the Mississippi, the backwoods hunter and settler, the flatboatman, the saddle-bags parson, the stump orator and lawyer, as the pioneers of its civilization : its great leaders, wit and humor, remarkable extent and wealth of resource, its past achievements and glorious future / by W.H. Milburn, D.D., Chaplain U.S. Congress, author of "The pioneers, preachers and people of the Mississippi Valley," "The rifle ace and saddle-bags," "Ten years of preacher life," "What a blind man saw in Europe," etc., etc., etc. ; nearly 200 striking engravings, including maps, portraits, scences and incidents from original designs.