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• Mississippi River -- Commerce
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• Mississippi River -- Description and travel
• Mississippi River -- Description and travel. from old catalog
• Mississippi River -- Discovery and exploration
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• Mississippi River -- Navigation
• Mississippi River -- Poetry
• Mississippi River -- Social life and customs
• Mississippi River -- Sources
• Mississippi River -- Sources. from old catalog
• Mississippi River -- Surveys
• Canoes and canoeing -- Mississippi River
• Floods -- Mississippi River
• Frontier and pioneer life -- Mississippi River
• Gamblers -- Mississippi River
• Gambling -- Mississippi River
• Gambling on river boats -- Mississippi River
• Hydrography -- Mississippi River
• Levees -- Mississippi River
• Pilots and pilotage -- Mississippi River
• River boats -- Mississippi River
• River life -- Mississippi River
• Speakman, Harold, 1888-1928 -- Travel -- Mississippi River
• Steam navigation -- Mississippi River
• Steam-navigation -- Mississippi River
• Steamboat disasters -- Mississippi River
• Steamboats -- Mississippi River
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Travel -- Mississippi River

• The Improvement of the Lower Mississippi River for Flood Control and Navigation (3 volumes in 1; Vicksburg, MS: U.S. Waterways Experiment Station, 1932), by Dabney Otey Elliott (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Memorial to Congress to Secure an Adequate Appropriation for a Prompt and Thorough Improvement of the Mississippi River, by Mississippi River Improvement Convention (page images at MOA)
• Proceedings of the River Improvement Convention, Held in St. Louis February 12 & 13, 1867, by Mississippi River Improvement Convention (page images at MOA)
• Report Upon the Physics and Hydraulics of the Mississippi River; Upon the Protection of the Alluvial Region Against Overflow; and Upon the Deepening of the Mouths (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1861), by A. A. Humphreys and Henry L. Abbot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Summary Narrative of an Exploratory Expedition to the Sources of the Mississippi River, in 1820, Resumed and Completed, by the Discovery of its Origin in Itasca Lake (Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo and Co., 1855), by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The river Mississippi, from St. Paul to New Orleans, (New York, A. Harthill; Ross & Tousey [etc.]; St. Louis, L. Bushnell; [etc., etc., 1859]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Genesis of steamboating on western rivers; (Madison, The Society, 1912), by George Byron Merrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Telegraph-herald's abridged history of the state of Iowa and directory of Fayette County, including the city of Oelwein, with a complete classified business directory; ([Dubuque, Iowa, 1906]), by Patrick Joseph Quigley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Improvement of the Mississippi river. ([Washington, Govt. print. off., 1878]), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi River (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the expedition for the relief of yellow-fever sufferers of the lower Mississippi. (Washington, Gov't print. off., 1878), by United States War Department (page images at HathiTrust)
• Methods of improving the Mississippi River / (1910), by John W. Buzick (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Mississippi / (New York : C. Scribner's sons, 1892, c1881), by F. V. Greene (page images at HathiTrust)
• The speeches of Mr. Ross and Mr. Morris, delivered in the Senate of the United States, Thursday, the 24th of February, 1803, in support of Mr. Ross's resolutions relative to the free navigation of the river Mississippi and our right of deposit within the Spanish territories. (Philadelphia : Bronson & Chauncey, 1803), by James Ross and Gouverneur Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proceedings of the Upper Mississippi River convention. ([Quincy, Ill. : The Association?], 1902-), by Upper Mississippi River Improvement Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lazy Mississippi., by Ballard MacDonald, Robert Levenson, Ballard MacDonald, and Robert Levenson, illust. by Albert Wilfred Barbelle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travels through the interior parts of North America (Philadelphia: : Printed and sold by Joseph Crukshank in Market-Street, and Robert Bell, in Third-Street., MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]), by Jonathan Carver and Joseph Banks (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Travels through the interior parts of North America (Philadelphia: : Printed by Joseph Crukshank in Market-Street, between Second and Third-Streets., MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]), by Jonathan Carver and Joseph Banks (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Grant to the Georgia Mississippi Company, the constitution thereof, and extracts relative to the situation, soil, climate, and navigation of the western territory of the state of Georgia; and particularly of that part thereof in which the Company's lands are situated. Published by order of the Directors. (Augusta [Ga.]: : Printed by John Erdman Smith. MDCCXCV. And reprinted with an appendix, by desire of the purchasers in Connecticut., [1795]), by Georgia Mississippi Company, Thomas Hutchins, and Georgia. Act supplementary to an act (HTML at Evans TCP)

• The Mississippi and its forty-four navigable tributaries. (Washington, Gov't print. off., 1888), by Alexander Dwight Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mississippi question : report of a debate in the Senate of the United States, on the 23d, 24th & 25th February, 1803 ... (Philadelphia: Printed by W. Duane, 106 High Street, 1803), by 2d session United States. 7th Congress (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Mississippi and its forty-four navigable tributaries. A descriptive, commercial, and statistical review ... (Washington, Gov't print off., 1890), by Alex Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Exploratory Travels Through the Western Territories of North America (London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1811), by Zebulon Montgomery Pike (page images in Germany)
• The King of Rivers: With a Chart of Our Slave and Free Soil Territory (New York: C. Wood, 1850), by Cora Montgomery, contrib. by Gerrit Smith
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Mostly Mississippi, by Harold Speakman (HTML and page images at LOC)
• The Navigator: Containing Directions for Navigating the Monongahela, Allegheny, Ohio, and Mississippi Rivers (9th edition; Pittsburgh: Cramer, Spear and Eichbaum, 1817), by Zadok Cramer (page images at Missouri)
• Four Months in a Sneak-Box: A Boat Voyage of 2600 Miles Down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, and Along the Gulf of Mexico, by Nathaniel H. Bishop
  • illustrated HTML at ibiblio.org
  • Gutenberg text
• Old Times on the Upper Mississippi: The Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot From 1854 to 1863 (Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Co., 1909), by George Byron Merrick (page images at Google; US access only)
• Life on the Mississippi (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1906), by Mark Twain (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
• Life on the Mississippi (Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883), by Mark Twain
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• The Canoe Aurora: A Cruise from the Adirondacks to the Gulf (1885), by Charles A. Neidé (illustrated HTML at thecheappages.com)
• A Journal of Travels into the Arkansas Territory, During the Year 1819; With Occasional Observations on the Manners of the Aborigines (Philadelphia: T. H. Palmer, 1821), by Thomas Nuttall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative Journal of Travels Through the Northwestern Regions of the United States (Albany: E. and E. Hosford, 1821), by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Lloyd's steamboat directory, and disasters on the western waters, (Cincinnati, Ohio, J. T. Lloyd & co.; Chicago, Ill., D. B. Cooke & co., 1856), by James T. Lloyd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative of a journey down the Ohio and Mississippi in 1789-90. / by Maj. Samuel S. Forman ; with a memoir and illustrative notes by Lyman C. Draper. (Cincinnati : R. Clarke & co., 1888), by Samuel S. Forman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forty years a gambler on the Mississippi, by George H. Devol. (Cincinnati, Devol & Haines, 1887), by George H. Devol (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forty years a gambler on the Mississippi / by George H. Devol. (New York : Home Book Co., 1894), by George H. Devol (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travels in America, performed in 1806, for the purpose of exploring the rivers Alleghany, Monongahela, Ohio, and Mississippi, and ascertaining the produce and condition of their banks and vicinity. (Newburyport [Mass.] Re-printed for W. Sawyer & co., by E. M. Blunt, 1808), by Thomas Ashe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life on the Mississippi, (New York and London, Harper & brod., 1899), by Mark Twain (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Down the great river; embracing an account of the discovery of the true source of the Mississippi, together with views, descriptive and pictorial, of the cities, towns, villages and scenery on the banks of the river, as seen during a canoe voyage of over three thousand miles from its head waters to the gulf of Mexico. By Captain Willard Glazier ... (Philadelphia, Hubbard brothers, 1891), by Willard W. Glazier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fifty years on the Mississippi; (Saint Louis, Nixon-Jones printing co., 1889), by E Gould (page images at HathiTrust)
• The present state of the European settlements on the Mississippi, with a geographical description of that river illustrated by plans and draughts, (Cleveland, The A. H. Clark company, 1906), by Philip Pittman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative journal of travels through the northwestern regions of the United States : extending from Detroit through the great chain of American lakes to the sources of the Mississippi River, performed as a member of the expedition under Governor Cass. In the year 1820. By Henry R. Schoolcraft. (Albany : E. & E. Hosford, 1821), by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ensign, Bridgman & Fanning's lake and river guide; (New York, Ensign, Bridgman & Fanning, 1856) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Four months in a sneak-box. A boat voyage of 2600 miles down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, (Boston, Lee & Shepard; New York, C. T. Dillingham, 1879), by Nathaniel Holmes Bishop (page images at HathiTrust)
• Morgan's journey down the Mississippi in 1767, by Col. James M. Morgan. ([Washington?, 1905]), by George Morgan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old times on the upper Mississippi : the recollections of a steamboat pilot from 1854 to 1863 / by George Byron Merrick. (Cleveland, Ohio : A.H. Clark Co., 1909), by George Byron Merrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Auf dem Mississippi; Nach dem fernen Westen (in German), by Mark Twain, illust. by Albert B. Richter and H. Schrödter (Gutenberg ebook)
• Luotsina Mississippi-joella: Humoristinen kertomus (in Finnish), by Mark Twain (Gutenberg ebook)
• Old Times on the Upper Mississippi: The Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot from 1854 to 1863, by George Byron Merrick (Gutenberg ebook)
• Narrative of a Journey Down the Ohio and Mississippi in 1789-90, by Samuel S. Forman (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Houseboat Book: The Log of a Cruise from Chicago to New Orleans, by W. F. Waugh (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Volume 3 (of 3): To Headwaters of the Mississippi River Through Louisiana Territory, and in New Spain, During the Years 1805-6-7., by Zebulon Montgomery Pike, ed. by Elliott Coues (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Volume 2 (of 3): To Headwaters of the Mississippi River Through Louisiana Territory, and in New Spain, During the Years 1805-6-7., by Elliott Coues and Zebulon Montgomery Pike (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Volume 1 (of 3): To Headwaters of the Mississippi River Through Louisiana Territory, and in New Spain, During the Years 1805-6-7., by Zebulon Montgomery Pike, ed. by Elliott Coues (Gutenberg ebook)
• Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi, by George H. Devol (Gutenberg ebook)

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