Books by Charles Edward Russell

This biography is the result of 14 years of sympathetic study and research among all categories of material wherein could be turned up the slightest bit of information concerning this "literary forger" who committed suicide in his teens."A biography of such remarkable merit, historical and critical, that it will instantly take a high place among the best productions of its class. One must turn many a page in many a book to find a finer, nobler piece of writing than Mr. Russell's preface and the book itself is in fitting sequence."- New York TimesThis title is cited and recommended by the Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature.

CONTENTSGolden Ties about the Golden CityThe Beginnings of a Great FortuneThe First Developments of the Formula for Sudden WealthThe Formula for Wealth as It was Worked in Chicago and New YorkThe Story of the Great Milwaukee DealThe Story of the Hocking Valley LootThe Story of the Two VirginiansThe Office Boy in High FinanceAdditional Light in the Judicious Mixture of Politics and Business that is Essential to the Best Playing of the GameTobacco and High FinanceThe Syndicate Comes InThe True Dimensions of a Great Money-making MachineThe Great Game of InsuranceThe Wreck of a Great PropertyThe Fathomless Mysteries of High FinanceThe True Functions of a "Holding Company"The Brunt of the BurdenThe Experiences of a WitnessSide-lights on Civilization in a Great CityCopartners in Guilt

An entertaining account of the golden era of lumber rafting, back in print!During the nineteenth century, pine logs were lashed together to form easily floatable rafts that traveled from Minnesota and Wisconsin down the Mississippi River to build the farms and towns of the virtually treeless lower Midwest. These huge log rafts were steered down the river by steamboat pilots whose skill and intimate knowledge of the river’s many hazards were legendary. Charles Edward Russell, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, chronicles the history and river lore of seventy years of lumber rafting. "Russell deals with those decades during which the lumber business and the rafting of lumber grew and reached enormous proportions. But his story covers also the splendid phase of the river steamboat. Russell writes with a lively pen, and he has made a colorful and entertaining account." New York Times Book Review"Not a dull page in the book. Russell writes frontier history as it should be written." New York Herald TribuneFesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Series