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Account of the Discovery of True Source of Mississippi

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Book Title: Down the Great River; Embracing an Account of the Discovery of the True Source of the Mississippi

Author: Captain Willard Glazier

Publishing: Philadelphia, Hubbard Brothers, 1888

443 pages

Captain Willard Glazier (1841-1905) was a soldier, author, explorer who traveled the length of the Mississippi River the year of 1881, looking for the source of the Mississippi. His book published in 1887, was called “Down the Great River”.

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