Ramsey County History – Fall 1998: “Henry Bosse and Samuel Clemens as Mark Twain—Parallel Lives on the Mighty Mississippi”

Henry Bosse and Samuel Clemens as Mark Twain—Parallel Lives on the Mighty Mississippi

Author: Michael Connor

The author discovered one of the two sets of Henry Bosse cyanotype images of the Upper Mississippi made between 1883 and 1891. This appreciation of Bosse’s work draws parallels between it and the work of his contemporary Mark Twain’s Life on the Mississippi.

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