Sixteen years later, River of Dreams  is now available in paperback! Grab your copy here and see if it still holds up...

Great news for anyone with even a passing interest in the social and cultural history of the Mississippi River: Michael Pasquier's God...

The release of Southern Queen  might be just around the corner, but Kindle editions of my other two books have just been added on Amazon. C...

River of Dreams  was reviewed in issue 28 of Gateway , the magazine of the Missouri History Museum. David Lobbig writes: "Thomas Ruys ...

River of Dreams  got a nod in Year's Work in English Studies 89 (2010): "In recent years, Twain's travel writing has received...

As part of their 75th anniversary celebrations, Louisiana State University Press has put together a series of lists highlighting "75 ...

River of Dreams: Imagining the Mississippi Before Mark Twain has been reviewed by Daniel Claro in Louisiana History (50:2, Spring 2009). H...

River of Dreams: Imagining the Mississippi Before Mark Twain has been reviewed by James E. Seelye in the Journal of Southern History (May ...

River of Dreams: Imagining the Mississippi Before Mark Twain  has been reviewed in the Journal of the Early Republic . Ann Ostendorf writes:...

River of Dreams has been reviewed by Scott Romine in the Southern Literary Journal , as part of a longer essay, "The Nature of the So...

River of Dreams has been mentioned in Alan Gribben's essay on Mark Twain in the 2007 edition of American Literary Scholarship . Here...

River of Dreams has been reviewed in the Journal of Illinois History by James Hurt . Hurt says: River of Dreams is an impressive achiev...

River of Dreams has been reviewed by Luther Brown in Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies . He writes: "This is a valuable book...

River of Dreams has received mention in American Literature :

Writing in Booklist (May 1, 2007), the publication of the American Library Association, George Cohen described River of Dreams as "...

As the release date for River of Dreams approaches, a preview of the dust jacket (click a section for a larger image): Plus, some advance p...

Release date for River of Dreams: Imagining the Mississippi Before Mark Twain has been slated for June 2007. As you can see from the sideba...

A first glimpse of the cover of River of Dreams: Imagining the Mississippi Before Mark Twain ( Louisiana State University Press , Spring 200...