Download or read book River Towns in the Great West written by Timothy R. Mahoney and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-02-13 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes, with unprecedented breadth and coverage, the development, maturation, growth, and sudden decline of a distinctive, regional urban economic system that developed along the upper Mississippi River north of St. Louis during the middle third of the nineteenth century.