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The River We Have Wrought: A History of the Upper Mississippi

Book by John O. Anfinson; University of Minnesota Press, 2003

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Human Ecology--Mississippi River, Mississippi River--Environmental Conditions, Mississippi River--History, Mississippi River--Navigation--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...U.S. Run for Its Money, Mississippi Monitor 2, 10 (November 1998...Eroding, 3; Fixing Up Old Man River, Mississippi Monitor 2, 5 (June 1998...Locks Not Needed for Decades, Mississippi Monitor 2, 11 (Dec. 1998...
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Time's River: Archaeological Syntheses from the Lower Mississippi River Valley

Book by Janet Rafferty, Evan Peacock; University of Alabama Press, 2008

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Archaeology--Lower Mississippi River Valley, Excavations (Archaeology)--Lower Mississippi River Valley, Indians Of North America--Lower Mississippi River Valley--Antiquities, Interstate 69--Antiquities, Lower Mississippi River Valley--Antiquities, Lower Mississippi River Valley--History, Prehistoric Peoples--Lower Mississippi River Valley

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...Portion of the Yazoo River (Silver City to Yazoo...Projects, Yazoo River, Mississippi, Between SRM 75.6...Mississippi , pp. 9 105. Mississippi Department of Archives...Features in the Lower Mississippi River Alluvial Valley. Geoscience...
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Changing Perspectives on the Archaeology of the Central Mississippi River Valley

Book by Michael J. O'Brien, Robert C. Dunnell; University of Alabama Press, 1998

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Excavations (Archaeology)--Mississippi River Valley--History, Mississippi River Valley--Antiquities, Mississippian Culture

Collections: History, Entire Library

...result of the ancestral Mississippi River and in the Little River Lowland as the result of both the ancestral Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Braided surfaces, or...permanent shift of the Mississippi River to the east of Crowleys...
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A Pilgrimage in America: Leading to the Discovery of the Sources of the Mississippi and Bloody River; with a Description of the Whole Course of the Former and of the Ohio

Book by J. C. Beltrami; Quadrangle Books, 1962

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Indians Of North America--Mississippi River Valley, Mississippi River Valley--Description And Travel, Mississippi River--Sources, Ohio River--Description And Travel, Red River Of The North

Collections: History, Entire Library

The Yazoo river flows from the east and seprates the Tennessee and the Mississippi states. It traverses a...limits of that state and the Mississippi river. All the countries...the eastern bank of the Mississippi. It is about eight hundred...
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Old Times on the Upper Mississippi: Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot from 1854-1863

Book by George Byron Merrick; University of Minnesota Press, 2001

Subjects:

Frontier And Pioneer Life--Mississippi River Valley, Merrick, George Byron, Mississippi River Valley--Description And Travel, Mississippi River Valley--Social Life And Customs--19th Century, Mississippi River--Description And Travel, Mississippi River--Social Life And Customs--19th Century, Pilots And Pilotage--Mississippi River--Biography, River Boats--Mississippi River--History--19th Century, River Life--Mississippi River--History--19th Century, Steam-Navigation--Mississippi River--History--19th Century

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...were coffee, tea, and river water. Mark Twain has described...ordinary beverage used on the river, as it is found on the Missouri, or on the Mississippi below the mouth of the Big...many eastern people against Mississippi River water as a beverage...

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Journal Articles on: mississippi river

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River of Dreams: Imagining the Mississippi before Mark Twain

Journal article by James E. Seelye Jr.; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 76, 2010

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Books--Book reviews, River of Dreams: Imagining the Mississippi Before Mark Twain (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

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River of Dreams: Imagining the Mississippi before Mark Twain. by James...River of Dreams: Imagining the Mississippi before Mark Twain. By Thomas...with the transformation of the Mississippi River into an American possession after...
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A River Full of Fish: Industrial Catfish Production and the Decline of Commercial Fishing on the Upper Mississippi River

Journal article by Randy Ziegenhorn; Human Organization, Vol. 59, 2000

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Agriculture, Commercial fishing, Mississippi River, Rivers

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...biologists on a portion of the Upper Mississippi River near New Boston. I then describe...commercial fishers operating on the Mississippi River, out of a total of 800 commercial...Sallee of the Illinois DNRs Mississippi River Project in Aledo, Illinois...
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Fish Assemblages of Natural and Artificial Habitats within the Channel Border of the Upper Mississippi River

Journal article by Jeffrey C. Madejczyk, Neal D. Mundahl, Richard M. Lehtinen; The American Midland Naturalist, Vol. 139, 1998

Subjects:

Ecosystems, Fish, Mississippi River, Rivers

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...Border of the Upper Mississippi River by Jeffrey C...Lehtinen INTRODUCTION River systems throughout...activities. Large rivers in particular have...suggest that in large rivers such as the Mississippi, fish assemblages...assemblage of the upper Mississippi River. Across longer shoreline...
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Seasonal Diet Composition of Adult Shovelnose Sturgeon in the Middle Mississippi River

Journal article by Justin R. Seibert, Quinton E. Phelps, Sara J. Tripp, James E. Garvey; The American Midland Naturalist, Vol. 165, 2011

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Animal reproduction, Diet, Land degradation, Mississippi River, Organisms, Rivers, Standard deviation, Studies, Temperature, Winter

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...Acipenseridae within the Mississippi River and support commercial...in portions of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers (Kline and Golden...in several large rivers: Platte River (Shuman, 2003), upper Mississippi River (Hoopes...
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The Mississippi River Campaign, 1861-1863: The Struggle for Control of the Western Waters

Journal article by Matthew M. Stith; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 78, 2012

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Books--Book reviews, The Mississippi River Campaign, 1861-1863: The Struggle for Control of the Western Waters (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

The Mississippi River Campaign, 1861-1863...Matthew M. Stith The Mississippi River Campaign, 1861...operations in the Mississippi River Valley, but readers looking...of the conflict on the Mississippi will do well to keep that...

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Magazine Articles on: mississippi river

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Saving the Mighty Miss: Years of Tinkering by the Army Corps of Engineers Has Inexorably Harmed the Fragile Ecosystem of the Lower Mississippi River. Six States Have Banded Together to Reverse the Damage

Magazine article by Thomas Charlier; State Legislatures, Vol. 32, April 2006

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Conservation of natural resources--Arkansas, Conservation of natural resources--Kentucky, Conservation of natural resources--Louisiana, Conservation of natural resources--Management, Conservation of natural resources--Mississippi, Conservation of natural resources--Missouri, Conservation of natural resources--Tennessee, Mississippi River, Natural resource conservation--Arkansas, Natural resource conservation--Kentucky, Natural resource conservation--Louisiana, Natural resource conservation--Management, Natural resource conservation--Mississippi, Natural resource conservation--Missouri, Natural resource conservation--Tennessee, United States. Army. Corps of Engineers--Environmental policy, United States--Environmental policy

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...Ecosystem of the Lower Mississippi River. Six States Have Banded...could be one of the Mississippi Rivers richest natural gems...cutoffs quickened the rivers currents, allowing...erosion and caused the Mississippi to cut a deeper bed for itself. The lower river elevations then sucked...
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Mighty Mississippi: River Pilot System Rife with Abuse

Magazine article by Jeffrey Meitrodt; Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. The IRE Journal, Vol. 25, September 2002

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Investigations, Mississippi River, Newspapers, Scandals, Times-Picayune-New Orleans LA

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Mighty Mississippi: River Pilot System Rife with Abuse by...system of selecting and overseeing Mississippi River pilots. Grue dropped out...by the Coast Guard on the lower Mississippi River in recent years) that we expected...
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The Mississippi River Basin Alliance

Magazine article by Pw; Whole Earth, Summer 1999

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Mississippi River--Economic aspects

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The Mississippi River Basin Alliance by PW...relationship between the Mississippi Delta and the Chicago...itself that causes the rivers demise, or is it the...the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers...
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Channeling the History of the Mississippi River

Magazine article; Parks & Recreation, Vol. 39, December 2004

Subjects:

Historic buildings & sites, Parks & recreation areas, Tunica County Mississippi

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Channeling the History of the Mississippi River This past March, the Mississippi River played host to more...RiverPark has not impacted the river, and instead protects its...Mississippi River, to ride on the Mississippi River, to learn the significance...
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The Critical Role of Health in the Economic Development of the Lower Mississippi River Delta

Magazine article by David M. Mirvis, Joy A. Clay; Business Perspectives, Vol. 20, Summer-Fall 2009

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Economic development--Analysis, Economic development--Mississippi, Mississippi--Economic aspects, Public health--Analysis

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...Economic Development of the Lower Mississippi River Delta. by David M. Mirvis...Clay ILLUSTRATION OMITTED The Mississippi River Delta presents significant...including all of the lower Mississippi River Delta states, and 12 of...

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Newspaper Articles on: mississippi river

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Innovative Eads Tames, Harnesses Rivers; His Ironclads Help Secure Mississippi

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 31, 2004

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Eads, James Buchanan

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Tames, Harnesses Rivers; His Ironclads Help Secure Mississippi. Byline: John...from salvaged Mississippi River cargo, built...silt from the Mississippi River delta without...nature and the rivers own flow to...
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Miss Matthews and the Mississippi; Ol' Man River Has a Special Kind of Magic, Singer Cerys Tells Emily Lambert

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), September 27, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...on the banks of the mighty Mississippi. Cerys Matthews has a huge...documentary series Yr Afon (The River), which starts on Monday. "The Mississippi is very special," says...becoming familiar with the rivers lower reaches. "It has...the southern states of the Mississippi. One of the highlights is...
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Mississippi River Town Tugs on Visitors' Wanderlust

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), September 2, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Mississippi River Town Tugs on Visitors Wanderlust...eatery on the west bank of the Mississippi. Your host will stop by your...represent the west bank of the Mississippi in an annual tug- of-war across the river against competing teams from...
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You Have Several Options for Mississippi River Day Cruise

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), September 11, 2005

Subjects:

Hurricane Katrina, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...record, the companys three river boats also cover the Ohio River as far as Pittsburgh, traverse...offer so-called wilderness river cruises on the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers. But back to the Mississippi. You can either select the...
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Rootin'around BB's Beautiful South; OLE MAN RIVER: B. B. King Is Still on the Road at 83. Left: A Paddle Steamer on the Mississippi SOUTHERN MAN: Dan outside Po Monkey's Juke Joint, Where Terry 'Harmonica' Bean and His Band Played, Right. Left: Clarksdale's Roadsign Tribute to the Blues BLUES BROTHERS: Dan Meets His Hero B.B King

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), October 19, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Beautiful South; OLE MAN RIVER: B. B. King Is Still...Paddle Steamer on the Mississippi SOUTHERN MAN: Dan outside...Hipgrave heads out to Mississippi, birthplace of the...the mighty Mississippi River. I headed to the Tunica...central basin of the Mississippi, causing its levee...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: mississippi river

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Mississippi , River, United States

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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...Yazoo, and Tensas river basins. Breaks in...of the plain. The Mississippi Delta After receiving the Arkansas and Red rivers, the Mississippi enters a birdsfoot...channel has increased the rivers flood-carrying capacity...hectare) model of the Mississippi River basin is located at...
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Mississippi , River, Canada

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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MISSISSIPPI , river, Canada river, c.100 mi (160 km) long, rising E of the Kawartha Lakes, S Ont., Canada, and flowing NE through Mississippi Lake, then N to the Ottawa River near Arnprior. It is navigable...
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Mississippi National River and Recreation Area

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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MISSISSIPPI NATIONAL RIVER AND RECREATION AREA see National Parks and Monuments (table). ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Mississippi , State, United States

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...along the Tennessee River. The most distinctive...alluvial plain between the Mississippi and the Yazoo rivers in the western part...Most of the states rivers belong to either the Mississippi or the Alabama river systems, with the...divide. The climate of Mississippi is subtropical in the...
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Mississippi Scheme

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...but commonly known as the Mississippi Company), was given, among...emerald rock on the Arkansas River, and an expedition promptly...most were ruined when the "Mississippi Bubble" burst in Oct...its financial aspects, the Mississippi Scheme was responsible for...

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