Bern Keating (1915–2004)

The Mississippi, they named it well. The river was big, too big to comprehend all at once. It changes character several times as if flows through the heart of America. With author Bern Keating and National Geographic photographer James L. Stansfield you will meet the river, and its inhabitants, in the colorful pages of The Mighty Mississippi.

A sensationalist treatment of the American Inventor and showman. The facts are all there, but I feel a bit of parallelism with the other major designers, Remington and Smith and Wesson, would have made for a better book. Perhaps there was a subsidy from the Colt people?

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