Abell, Sam. The Mississippi and the Making of a Nation from the Louisiana Purchase to Today by Stephen E. Ambrose

Ambrose and Douglas G. Brinkley, Photographs by Sam Abell. An Official Publication of the Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial. National Geographic, 2002. Hardcover with protected dust jacket, ex-library copy in excellent condition with spine label and card pocket. A well-written history of the region with maps, historical photographs, and recent photographs by the famous photographer Sam Abell, Photographer-in-Residence at National Geographic who has produced at least nine other books and is on the board of the George Eastman House. Issued at $40. Covers all ten states in the region, from Minnesota to Iowa to Louisiana. 274 pages.  ISBN on dust jacket only.