A Great River

Series: American Legacy Series Program 9

Year Published: 1983

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Presents John Rugg and several Mark Twain characters introducing life on the Mississippi River in the 1850s and traveling aboard an authentic early American steamboat. Shows a modern towboat lashed to its 56 barges and heading for the great port of New Orleans. Views the French Quarter and Jackson Square in New Orleans and dramatizes an episode in the life of the pirate Jean Lafitte.

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