Mark Twain’s visions of the Mississippi River offer some of the most indelible images in American literature: Huck and Jim floating downstream on their raft,

Even in the decades before Mark Twain enthralled the world with his evocative representations of the Mississippi, the river played an essential role in American

Life on the Mississippi (1883) is a memoir by Mark Twain of his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War. It is also a t