Clams, Pearls, and Button Cutting Tools
Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. XXIII, No. 3, September 1970 By Barbara Tucker, Grace Mary Ederer, and Coral Draxten The real romance and excitement of the big pearl hunting days on the Mississippi River are gone forever. Some of the flavor of this period should be preserved for tomorrow. In 1904 Praire du Chien, Wisconsin, …