Crutchfield - It Happened on the Mississippi River

James A. Crutchfield is a popular western historian and the author of numerous books, including It Happened in Texas, It Happened in Washington , and six other It Happened In titles.

He is the author of forty books dealing with various aspects of American history and has contributed hundreds of articles to newspapers, journals, and national magazines, among them The Magazine Antiques, Early American Life, and The American Cowboy.

Crutchfields writing achievements have been recognized with awards from Western Writers of America, the American Association for State and Local History, and the Tennessee Revolutionary Bicentennial Commission. A former board member of the Tennessee Historical Society, he presently sits on the Board of National Scholars for Presidents Park in Williamsburg, Virginia. He and his wife, Regena, reside in a preCivil War home in Tennessee.

Prehistoric Metropolis on the Mississippi: Cahokia

Silverberg, Robert. The Mound Builders. New York: New York Graphic Society, 1970.

Thomas, Cyrus. Report on the Mound Explorations of the Bureau of Ethnology, in Twelfth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1894.

The Kensington Stone

Boland, Charles Michael. They All Discovered America . New York: Doubleday & Company, 1961.

Herrmann, Paul. Conquest By Man. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1954.

Holand, Hjalmar R. Norse Discoveries & Explorations in America:

9821362. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1969.

Early European Exploration on the Mississippi

Lavender, David. De Soto, Coronado, Cabrillo: Explorers of the

Northern Mystery. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of the Interior, 1992.

Williams, Samuel Cole. Early Travels in the Tennessee Country. Johnson City, Tenn.: The Watauga Press, 1928.

The Founding of New Orleans

Du Pratz, Antoine Le Page. The History of Louisiana. New Orleans: Pelican Press, Inc., 1947.

The Natchez Revolt

Crutchfield, James A. The Natchez Trace: A Pictorial History. Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1985.

Du Pratz, Antoine Le Page. The History of Louisiana. New Orleans: Pelican Press, Inc., 1947.

Swanton, John R. Indian Tribes of the Lower Mississippi Valley. Washington, D.C.: Bureau of American Ethnology, 1911.

LaClde and the Beginnings of St. Louis

Foley, William E. A History of Missouri. Volume 1, 16731820. Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, 1971.

LeCompte, Janet. Auguste Pierre Chouteau, in The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West, Volume X, edited by LeRoy R. Hafen. Spokane, Wash.: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 2004.

The Fall of Kaskaskia

Palmer, Frederick. Clark of the Ohio. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1930.

Spiller, Roger J., ed. Dictionary of American Military Biography. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1984.

Waller, George M. The American Revolution in the West. Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1976.

Werstein, Irving. 1776 The Adventure of the American Revolution

Told With Pictures. New York: Cooper Square Publishers, Inc., 1976.

Lewis and Clark at Wood River

Jackson, Donald, ed. Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition with Related Documents 17831854. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1978.

Lavender, David. The Way to the Western Sea. New York: Harper & Row, 1988.

Moulton, Gary E. The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Volume 2. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1986.

The Transfer of Louisiana

Dillon, Richard. Meriwether Lewis: A Biography. New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1965.

Lavender, David. The Way to the Western Sea. New York: Harper & Row, 1988.

Sprague, Marshall. So Vast So Beautiful A Land: Louisiana and the

Purchase. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1974.

Kaintucks on the Mississippi

Crutchfield, James A. The Natchez Trace: A Pictorial History. Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1985.

The New Madrid Earthquake

Clifton, Juanita. Reelfoot and the New Madrid Quake. Asheville, N.C.: Victor Publishing Company, 1980.

Great Disasters. Pleasantville, N.Y.: The Readers Digest Association, Inc., 1989.

The First Steamboat on the Mississippi River

Dohan, Mary Helen. Mr. Roosevelts Steamboat. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1981.

Petersen, William J. Steamboating on the Upper Mississippi. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1995.

The Battle of New Orleans

Crutchfield, James A. Tennesseans at War. Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1987.

Fort Snelling and the Beginnings of Minneapolis-St. Paul

Prucha, Francis Paul, ed. Army Life on the Western Frontier: Selections from the Official Reports Made Between 1826 and 1845 by Colonel George Croghan. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1958

. Broadax and Bayonet: The Role of the United States Army in the Development of the Northwest 18151860. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1967.

Wayman, Norbury L. Life on the River: A Pictorial History of the Mississippi, the Missouri, and the Western River System. New York: Bonanza Books, 1971.

Frances Wrights Vision

Morris, Celia. Fanny Wright: Rebel in America. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1992.

Parks, Edd Winfield. Dreamers Vision: Frances Wright at Nashoba (18251830), in Tennessee Historical Magazine, Series II, Volume II, Number 2. Nashville: Tennessee Historical Society, 1932.

Black Hawks War

Black Hawk. Life of Black Hawk. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1994.

Utley, Robert M. and Washburn, Wilcomb E. The American Heritage History of the Indian Wars. New York: American Heritage Publishing Company, Inc., 1977.

Discovering the Source of the Mississippi River

Petersen, William J. Steamboating on the Upper Mississippi. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1995.

Sprague, Marshall. So Vast So Beautiful A Land: Louisiana and the Purchase. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1974.

George Catlin and the Pipestone Quarry

McCracken, Harold. George Catlin and the Old Frontier. New York: Bonanza Books, n. d.

Truettner, William H. The Natural Man Observed: A Study of Catlins Indian Gallery. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979.

Sandweiss, Martha A. Pictures From an Expedition. New Haven, Conn.: Yale Center for American Art and Material Culture, 1979.

Davy Crocketts Mississippi River Exploits

Davy Crocketts Almanacks 18351843: The Nashville Imprints. Union City, Tenn.: Pioneer Press, 1986.

Nauvoo and the Mormons

Lamar, Howard R., ed. The New Encyclopedia of the American West. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1998.

General Ulysses Grants First Victory

Faust, Patricia L., ed. Historical Times Illustrated Encyclopedia of the

Civil War. New York: Harper & Row, 1986.

Long, E. B. The Civil War Day by Day: An Almanac 18611865. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1971.

The Great Sioux Uprising

Tolzmann, Don Heinrich, ed. The Sioux Uprising in Minnesota, 1862: Jacob Nixs Eyewitness History. Indianapolis: Max Kade German-American Center, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, and Indiana German Heritage Society, Inc., 1994.

Utley, Robert M. and Washburn, Wilcomb E. The American Heritage History of the Indian Wars. New York: American Heritage Publishing Company, 1977.

The Battle for Vicksburg

Faust, Patricia L., ed. Historical Times Illustrated Encyclopedia of the

Civil War. New York: Harper & Row, 1986.

Long, E. B. The Civil War Day by Day: An Almanac 18611865. Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1971.

The Destruction of the Sultana

Faust, Patricia L., ed. Historical Times Illustrated Encyclopedia of the

Civil War. New York: Harper & Row, 1986.