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Deck on Deck: Towboating in the Twin Cities

By Capt. Bob Deck

Bob Deck was a deckhand as a teenager and a captain by the age of 22 on the Mississippi River during the boom time of the Twin Cities barge business. These stories will entertain you as he recalls the working life on the Mississippi River in the 1970s and 1980s.

   

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By Capt. Bob Deck

Softcover, 2010, 174 pages.
$16.95 plus $3.25 shipping. (USA)
6.875% sales tax in Minnesota

Deck on Deck: Towboating in the Twin Cities

Let Bob Deck entertain and enlighten you with his stories about working on a towboat on the busy river in the 1970s and 1980s. He'll put you in the shoes of a Mississippi River deckhand.

“From practical jokes among the men to the beauty of lights shining on the water at night, Deck captures the spirit of work the rest of us rarely see.”

Mary Ann Grossman
St. Paul Pioneer Press

“Like Mark Twain and George Merrick before him — Deck paints a vivid and nostalgic portrait of a working life on the river.”

Mike Mosedale
reporter and river nut

Bob Deck's website

and another Deck on Deck site - you can read an excerpt here.

By Dean Klinkenberg

Softcover, 2009, 128 pages.
$14.95 plus $3.25 shipping. (USA)
6.875% sales tax in Minnesota

By Dean Klinkenberg

Softcover, 2009, 360 pages.
$19.95 plus $3.25 shipping. (USA)
6.875% sales tax in Minnesota

The Mississippi Valley Traveler Guides

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 Quad Cities Travel Guide

Budget-conscious visitors to the Quad Cities will love this book. It's packed with ideas for what to do, where to stay, where to eat, where to hang out, and when and where to splurge.

 

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Lansing to LeClaire, Iowa, Travel Guide

The Mississisppi River from Lansing to LeClaire seems to have more than its fair share of big characters. Read about these and find places to explore in Dean Klinkenberg's second travel guide.

 

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Second Edition 2005
Winona County Historical Society, in cooperation with Big River

Softcover, 68 pages
$9.95 plus $3.25 shipping.
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6.875% sales tax in Minnesota

A History of Wapasha's Prairie: 1660-1853

By Myron A. Nilles

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The story of the Dakota people who lived where Winona, Minn., now stands. Second edition with new images and updated index.

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