Fashioned from the same experiences that would inspire the masterpiece Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twain’s most brilliant and most personal nonfiction work. It is at once an affectionate evocation of the vital river life in the steamboat era and a melancholy reminiscence of its passing after the Civil War, a priceless collection of humorous anecdotes and folktales, and a unique glimpse into Twain’s life before...

Introduces readers to the Mississippi River, North America's largest river.

Describes the conditions that led up to the severe flooding in the Mississippi River Valley in 1993.

In 1927, as the Mississippi River threatens to burst its banks and engulf all in its path, two federal revenue agents investigate the disappearance of two fellow agents on the trail of a local bootlegger.

Among the countless miles of damage caused by the Mississippi Flood of 1927, the homeless and displaced masses of the Mississippi Valley looked toward Memphis as a beacon of hope. As thousands of refugees poured into the city, Memphians opened their hearts and extolled feats of charity that could fill volumes. Join local author Patrick O'Daniel as he traces the events of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and the crucial role Memphis played in its...

Fifteen-year-old Françoise Laurent, orphaned in eighteenth-century New France, escapes her life of poverty by taking a job as maid to the wife of a wealthy fur trader, but when she is caught stealing a pair of gloves, her mistress, Madame Pommereau, has her tossed in jail, and she finds herself facing death by hanging unless she can figure out how to escape.

A biography of the seventeenth-century French explorer who was the first European to travel the entire length of the Mississippi River, claiming for France not only that river, but also all the land whose waters fed into it.

A brief biography of René-Robert Cavelier, know as Sieur de La Salle, focusing on his contributions to the state of Texas.

Examines the lives and discoveries of Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet, seventeenth-century French explorers who were assigned to follow the course of the Mississippi River from the Great Lakes to see if it led to the Pacific Ocean.