2. Moonlight on the Mississippi http://www.oldprintshop.com/images/large/82324.jpg

4. Oak Savanna Photo by Molly McGovern. www.inhf.org/oaksavannas.htm

5. Oil Tow, Minneapolis Minnesota Historical Society

7. Charles Dee Sharp The Mississippi in 1953, by Charles Dee Sharp

8. R.H. McElroy The Mississippi in 1953, by Charles Dee Sharp

9. Ferdinand Reichardt, Minnesota Historical Society The Great River

10. Jacques Marquette Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain)

11. Route of Marquette & Jolliet, 1673 Missouri State Parks and Historic Sites

12. Marquette and Jolliet Enter the Mississippi library.osu.edu/.../ohio-mich/illustrations.html

14. Route of the New Orleans, 1811 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Neworleans_steamboat_route.png

15. Fort Snelling J. C. Wild Minnesota Historical Society

16. Charles Dickens American Notes for General Circulation (1843) http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02100/dickens3_2100464b.jpg

17. George Caleb Bingham Jolly Flatboatmen in Port http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/George_Caleb_Bin gham_-_Jolly_Flatboatmen_in_Port.jpg

18. St. Louis, George Catlin Minnesota Historical Society

19. St. Anthony Falls, George Catlin

20. George Catlin http://americanart.si.edu/eyelevel/images/catlins_london.jpg

21. Banvard Panorama Mechanism http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/95/Moving_panorama.j pg

22. Maiden Rock, Henry Lewis Minnesota Historical Society

23. “ This Splendid Juggernaut ” Minnesota Historical Society

24. Slave Auction, New Orleans www.sonofthesouth.net/slavery

25. Minnesota Historical Society Travel by Steamboat

26. Moonshinning - Backwoods Still Clement Haupers, Minnesota Historical Society

27. 1925 Raid Minnesota Historical Society

28. 1950s Air Raid Drill info.detnews.com/history/story/

29. R.H. McElroy The Mississippi in 1953, by Charles Dee Sharp “ATOMIC ATTACK PROVISIONS FOR MERCHANT VESSELS IN PORT”

30. Lining up to Lock Through Rock Island District, COE

31. Henry Peter Bosse, St. Paul, Corps of Engineers Sandbars at Queens Bluff

32. Map - Natural Channels Light Blue - Less than 3 feet at low water

33. Spirit Island Eagles. Eastman Seth Eastman. Minnesota Historical Society

34. South St. Paul Stockyards Minnesota Historical Society

35. South St. Paul Stockyards Minnesota Historical Society

36. Scaffold Burials Seth Eastman, Minnesota Historical Society

37. Spear Fishing Seth Eastman, Minnesota Historical Society

38. Dakota Life on the Mississippi Seth Eastman, Minnesota Historical Society

39. Guttenberg, Iowa Library of Congress, American Memory Project

40. Battle of the Bad Axe Wisconsin Historical Society

41. Trail of Tears Robert Lindneux. Woolaroc Museum. Bartlesville, Oklahoma.

42. Nauvoo, Illinois mormonpioneertrek.com/Background.html

43. Rohwer, Arkansas, Internment Camp http://asms.k12.arhttp://asms.k12.ar. us/armem/tsang Charles Dee Sharp, The Mississippi in 1953

44. McCarthy Hearings McCarthy-Welch Exchange: "Have You No Sense of Decency" www.americanrhetoric.com/.../ welch-mccarthy.html

45. New Orleans Jazz, National Historic Park http://www.nps.gov/jazz/

47. “ Rafters ” Sumner Bright and Jack Fuhrman after trip from St. Paul to the Gulf, 1933. Minnesota Historical Society, New Orleans Times-Picayune.

48. “No rainbow ever lured a traveler with more siren call than this tawny sinew of the gods, ….” Albert Tousley, Where Goes the River? Henry Peter Bosse, self-portrait.